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I cannot make sense of what is happening. I say this as a scholar of polluted information, someone who talks and thinks about political toxicity more than I do anything […]
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The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer who used a knee chokehold on him, has sparked protests all over the country. […]
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Twitter has a problem: Its platform is overrun by bad actors and misinformation, as exemplified by the social media service’s most famous power user, Donald Trump. Because everyone — from […]
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Twitter on Tuesday slapped a fact-check label on President Trump’s tweets for the first time, a response to long-standing criticism that the company is too hands-off when it comes to […]
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The World Health Organization has called the spread of misinformation around the coronavirus an “infodemic.” So what do you do when it’s somebody you love spreading the misinformation? In this […]
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If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you’ve probably heard some wild claims about the coronavirus. We talk to two fact checkers who walk us through what they’re […]
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Facing an urgent demand for access to the latest coronavirus research, scientists are speeding up the process of publicizing their findings, at the risk of enabling the spread of scientific […]
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A video laden with falsehoods about Covid-19 emerged on Facebook last week, and has now been viewed many millions of times. The company has taken steps to minimize the video’s […]
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wdm-post-content wdm-post-grid How do you cover a conspiracy theory? Journalists who write about misinformation know that the trick is to debunk the falsehoods without amplifying them or generating any suggestion […]