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Oct 28 2020
News
Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs clash with Congress in pre-election showdown
Senate Democrats and Republicans grilled the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter on Wednesday at a highly partisan, wide-ranging review of their content-moderation practices less than a week before Election Day.
Lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee are convening the gathering chiefly to discuss a controversial, decades-old law known as Section 230 that spares social
Washington PostDec 10 2020
News
The media's biggest detractors have field day slamming them for dismissing Hunter Biden story prior to election
Legacy media outlets are facing fierce backlash for initially dismissing Hunter Biden's controversial foreign business dealings and characterizing them as Russian disinformation before the 2020 election after the president-elect's son revealed Wednesday that he is currently under investigation for his taxes.
“Our media, who defiantly censored this story, are so corrupt and disgusting.
Washington ExaminerJun 03 2021
Fact Check
Were Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts Restored?
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram pages appeared to have gone back online on June 2, 2021, even as a representative for Facebook insisted that Trump’s indefinite suspension from the platform remained in force.
Trump was indefinitely or permanently suspended from virtually all major social media platforms in January 2021 for inciting a deadly attack on the U.S
SnopesOct 15 2020
News
Biden campaign lashes out at New York Post
The campaign cast the allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden as “Russian disinformation,” while Republicans complained that social media companies were censoring the story.
Joe Biden’s campaign is punching back at a New York Post story that alleged a direct link between the Democratic presidential nominee and his son's business dealings.
Top Biden advisers who staffed him
PoliticoNov 16 2020
Analysis
Biden Won the Battle—but Dems Are Losing the Social Media War
As the 2020 election hit its homestretch, Joe Biden’s digital team began seeing alarming trends online.
Posts about the candidate’s son Hunter Biden and the contents of his laptops were spreading at incredible rates. Many of the posts were misleading, at best. Biden’s campaign had set up a comprehensive monitoring system to track the proliferation of disinformation across various
Daily BeastAug 04 2021
News
Facebook bans academics who researched ad transparency and misinformation on Facebook
Facebook has banned the personal accounts of academics who researched ad transparency and the spread of misinformation on the social network. Facebook says the group violated its term of service by scraping user data without permission. But the academics say they are being silenced for exposing problems on Facebook’s platform.
The researchers were part of NYU Ad Observatory, a project
The VergeFeb 21 2020
News
Intel officials say Russia boosting Trump candidacy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, according to three officials familiar with the closed-door briefing.
Trump pushed back Friday accusing Democrats of launching a disinformation campaign.
“Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats
Associated PressMar 15 2021
News
6 things we’ve learned from a year of misinformation about the coronavirus
One year ago, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The NBA suspended its season. About 1,000 Americans were infected, and the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.
Today, more than 500,000 Americans are dead from COVID-19. The country is recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Schools and colleges, many
PoynterJun 19 2021
Opinion
STUDY: Facebook Lets Genocidal Communist China Influence Over 751,000,000 Followers
Facebook has had no reservations about censoring conservative accounts. Yet, it allows accounts of state-controlled propaganda outlets from the genocidal regime of China to flourish. Forty accounts on Facebook, amassing over 751 million followers, are managed by Chinese state-controlled media outlets. For comparison, 751 million is over six times (6.39x) more followers than CNN, Fox News, The
NewsBustersJul 28 2022
Perspectives Blog
Which News Outlets Mislead? Democrats and Republicans Disagree
Which media outlets do you visit to get news on current events and politics? Do you avoid any that you believe convey misinformation or disinformation? Your perception of media outlets being misleading may come down to your own political beliefs.
According to a recent University of Chicago Institute of Politics survey of 1,000 registered voters in the U.S. from May 2022, a partisan
Andrew Weinzierl