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Twitter has frequently been criticized for acting slowly, if at all, to curb the spread of misinformation. But with an unprecedented pandemic sweeping the U.S., the social media platform is […]
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At a White House briefing on the coronavirus on March 20, President Trump called the State Department the âDeep State Department.â Behind him, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of […]
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In the one month since the first U.S. coronavirus death, America has become a country of uncertainty. New cases of infection and casualties continue multiplying. New York and Louisiana hospitals are grappling […]
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At first glance, Misrad Sulejmanovic could be your typical YouTuber. The 25-year-old from Bosnia and Herzegovina has a following of about 3,300 subscribers on his channel. He goes by the […]
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Although commentators frequently warn about echo chambers, little is known about the volume or slant of political misinformation that people consume online, the effects of social media and fact checking […]
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The Heartland Institute has spent decades peddling pseudoscience on behalf or major corporations. From helping big tobacco downplay smoking cancer risks to helping big telecom demolish popular consumer protections like […]
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Even though internal Fox News documents caution that frequent guests Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon traffic in âdisinformation,â the network canât seem to quit booking them. Since The Daily Beast […]
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College students, Alec Baldwin or a Russian bot? A Facebook page called North Carolina Breaking News describes itself as âsatire/parodyâ that wants to help President Donald Trump win re-election this […]
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In March of 2019, Facebook banned white nationalist and white separatist statements from its platform. White supremacism had been forbidden for some time, but last yearâs Christchurch massacre seems to […]