‘Cheap fakes’: Viral videos keep clipping Biden’s words out of context
In an October 2020 campaign speech in Georgia, just days before the election that sent him to the White...
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The Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ is backed by a Bangladeshi marketing firm and right-wing fringe groups
A Bangladeshi firm appears to have played a key role in promoting the Ottawa protest online, and Grid...
Peter Thiel is backing a new generation of Trump-aligned Republicans
Peter Thiel, the controversial billionaire tech founder and investor, has used his fortune to encourage...
Does banning extremists online work? It depends.
It’s been over a year since Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube banned an array of domestic extremist...
Rogan backlash raising questions about changing face of misinformation
There is continued backlash against podcaster Joe Rogan for including doctors on his show...
Should Tech Giants be in the Deplatforming Business?
Frank Sesno, the director of strategic initiatives at George Washington University’s...
Broadly speaking, the Internet has made more stories available at every point on this wants/...
New study investigates early claims of COVID-19 'infodemic'
The “infodemic” many say has been sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic is actually a general feature of...
Can fact-checking solve the misinformation pandemic?
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting was awarded to PolitiFact, a then-upstart fact-checking...
Researcher: Democracy Can Thrive in Darkness
On Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol hoping to overturn the legitimate...