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Few mainstream social media sites have become more inundated with misinformation since the 2020 presidential election than X. Elon Musk bought the platform formerly known as Twitter in late 2022 and quickly instituted policies that allowed the worst elements of society to thrive. But X reportedly fixed at least one problem recently identified by several state attorneys general with the AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the Biden administration in 2021 “repeatedly pressured” his company to take down certain posts related to covid and was “wrong” to do so. “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain covid-

Days after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook announced that it had bought a media-tracking and self-described “social-listening” tool called CrowdTangle. The company later touted the tool as part of its efforts to “protect the 2020 election,” announcing that it had provided access to election boards and secretaries of state nationwide “to help them

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to monitor social media posts, notably to track how misinformation spreads on the company's platforms. Wednesday's shutdown, which Meta announced earlier this year, has been protested by researchers and nonprofits. In May, dozens of groups, including