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Facebook Banning Donald Trump Is Too Little Too Late

On Wednesday at Washington’s Capitol, we saw the culmination of what happens when fascism – both online...

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Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus...

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Covid vaccine and mask conspiracies succeed when they appeal to identity and ideology

We all do it to some degree. We adopt perspectives and behaviors because they seem consistent with our...

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Vaccine hoaxes are rampant on social media. Here’s how to spot them.

Front-line health workers in the United States begun receiving coronavirus vaccines. But on social...

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Doubts about COVID-19 vaccine spread on social media, threatening effort to end pandemic

There is new hope this holiday season as the first COVID-19 vaccines are given to frontline...

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SMPA Professor Will Use Google Gift to Fight Vaccine Misinformation

Now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved its first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, an...

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Fox News confident in face of new rivals from right in Newsmax, OAN

Fox News is facing new competition for conservative viewers from rivals on the right amid a clash with...

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How the antifa conspiracy theory traveled from the fringe to the floor of Congress

While much of America watched a mob of Trump supporters overrun police and break into the halls of...

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UK on high alert for anti-vaccine disinformation from hostile states

British military and civilian teams have been placed on high alert this week due to fears that...

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'We are talking about people’s lives,' dire warnings of public health crisis as COVID vaccine misinformation rages

Hours after Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from the United Kingdom, became the...