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A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out | The New York Times
by Matthew Rosenberg and Julian E. Barnes
8 hours ago
WASHINGTON — For some of President Trump’s loudest cheerleaders, it was a story too good to check out: Black Lives…
QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show | NBC News
by Ari Sen & Brandy Zadrozny
2 days ago
An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support…
What’s up with all the news photos that make beaches look like Covid hotspots? | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
3 days ago
A new report from First Draft looks at online misinformation in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. First Draft has…
Trump Disputing Election A Worry For Facebook Employees | Buzzfeed
by Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac
4 days ago
After months of debate and disagreement over the handling of inflammatory or misleading posts from Donald Trump, Facebook employees want…
Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University
August 7, 2020
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading…
Facebook removes a coronavirus misinformation post from Trump for the first time ever | The Washington Post
by Heather Kelly
August 6, 2020
Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday took extraordinary action against President Trump for spreading coronavirus misinformation after his official and campaign accounts…
3 ways U.S. politicians may weaponize foreign disinformation | Axios
by Zach Dorfman
August 6, 2020
U.S. political actors will keep weaponizing the impact of widespread foreign disinformation campaigns on American elections, making these operations that…
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Coronavirus Pandemic | The New York Times
by Julian E. Barnes & David E. Sanger
July 31, 2020
Russian intelligence services have been spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, according to newly declassified intelligence, material that demonstrates how…
Facebook and Twitter fail to fact-check Trump’s latest claims about mail-in voting in the 2020 elections | Vox
by Shirin Ghaffary
July 31, 2020
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Twitter and Facebook are not fact-checking factually…