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Hundreds of healthcare professionals are urging Facebook to disclose data on the breadth of COVID-19 disinformation on the platform, piling onto the criticism the social media giant has faced in […]
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Journalists around the world are frequently detained, kidnapped and even killed – simply for reporting the news. In the past 30 years, at least 1,400 journalists have been killed. Yet […]
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Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. presidential election showed how disinformation could disrupt a democratic process. And due to the current reach of social media, the risk of fake news […]
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Misinformation and sceptical views about Covid-19 and vaccines has been allowed to spread on more than a dozen Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages and groups that together have gained 370,000 […]
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Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook — which recently renamed itself Meta — is doing far worse than it claims at minimizing Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on the Facebook social media platform. Online misinformation about the […]
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Sheng Wu didn’t plan to write the code that underpins some of the biggest tech companies in the world. It was 2015, and he was just looking for a fun […]
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In April, several months before a Facebook employee named Frances Haugen became the most famous whistleblower in the company’s history, The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong published a series of damning […]
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Twitter on Monday said it will be making authoritative information about climate change more accessible to users during this year’s United Nations COP26 climate summit. Why it matters: It’s the latest […]
