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Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Spain’s regional elections are still nearly four months away, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are already braced…
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The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress
“We met with all the platforms several times last year,” says Nina Santos, a researcher at the Brazilian National Institute…
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Twitter’s Moderation System Is in Tatters
“Me and other people who have tried to reach out have gotten dead ends,” Benavidez says. “And when we’ve reached…
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A Race to Bridge the Analog Divide in US Politics
“While I see and understand the power of social media and how you can communicate messages and engage in some…
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Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone…
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The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on…
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China’s WeChat Is a Hot New Venue for US Election Misinformation
When Chinese-language misinformation appears on US platforms like YouTube or Facebook, activists say it seems to get less actively moderated…
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The Election-Swinging, Facebook-Fueled, Get-Out-the-Vote Machine
Former Democratic operative Tara McGowan is sinking millions into Meta’s ad network to build Courier Newsroom, a media powerhouse for…
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Brazil’s Far Right Plots Its Own January 6 Insurrection
People voting in Brazil’s October 2 elections have been subjected to a deluge of misinformation and disinformation on social media…
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Kenya’s Threat to Ban Facebook Could Backfire
In June, Global Witness and Foxglove found that Meta continued to approve ads in Amharic targeting Ethiopian users that included…
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