Misinformation
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Facebook disputes reports that it failed to address known issues
Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images) Facebook on Saturday pushed back against recent reports from the Wall Street Journal that cited…
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Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Execs to Testify at Senate Hearing
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) Next week, policy executives from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter will testify at a Senate Judiciary…
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Health Official in Papua New Guinea Explains How Facebook Spreads Misinformation
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape (R) preparing to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Port…
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The Truth About Congress’s Facebook, Twitter, Google Hearings
Photo: Eric Kayne (SumOfUS) (AP) Midway through a congressional hearing Thursday in which U.S. lawmakers spent hours interrogating the CEOs…
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Big Tech CEOs Waffle on Banning the 12 Major Anti-Vaxxers
Anti-vax conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Berlin in August 2020.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) After a report from the…
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Facebook Missed 10.1 Billion Instances of Misinformation in 2020, Study Finds
Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images) If Facebook had moved sooner to restrict hoax, toxic, misleading, or other content attempting to…
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How to Stop People From Sharing Misinformation, ‘Fake News’
Photo: JOSH EDELSON / Contributor (Getty Images) A new study in Nature suggests that shifting reader attention online can help…
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Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies
Republican Senator Rand Paul appears before a Facebook logo at a Fox News/Facebook hosted presidential primary debate in 2015; used…
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Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies
Austin Beutner, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), receives the covid-19 vaccine on March 1, 2021 in…
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America’s Leaders Have No Clue What to Do About Disinformation
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley who appeared at a hearing held by the House Congressional Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Screenshot:…
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