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Fake news fighter Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is setting up a shared early warning system of rapid alerts to combat the spread of disinformation during the upcoming U.S. Presidential election. […]
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Facebook last week took steadily intensifying heat from fleeing advertisers and boycott leaders and received a big thumbs-down from its own civil-rights auditors. Its response, essentially: We hear you, but […]
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Amid a 2018 civil-rights audit of the company, Facebook came under pressure to consider a novel set of questions about its role in politics: What does voter suppression look like […]
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A Facebook account impersonating the Swain County board of elections in North Carolina. Unfounded rumors that Tarrant County, Texas, doesn’t have former Vice President Joe Biden on the ballot. Wrong […]
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On Wednesday, presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a new plan to fight disinformation, aiming to stem the effect of the Russian troll campaigns that plagued the 2016 election. […]
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If we can’t show that propaganda and disinformation have direct, persuasive effects, then why should we care? David Karpf argues that the answer lies in a foundational myth of democracy. Rampant online disinformation threatens to unravel that myth, and with it the fabric of our democratic society.
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The vast majority of false information shared on WhatsApp in Brazil during the presidential election favoured the far-right winner, Jair Bolsonaro, a Guardian analysis of data suggests. The analysis sheds […]
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Thousands of Facebook users in Arizona may have been startled to see a strange warning appear in their social feeds earlier this month. “Official records show that your voter registration […]