Dr. Rashid Buttar, a member of the "Disinformation Dozen," appeared on CNN to promote anti-vax theories. He told reporter Drew Griffin: "If I'm wrong, so be it."
The Google-owned platform announced its expanded medical misinformation guidelines in a blog post on Wednesday morning.
Troll farms were behind some of the most popular pages and content on Facebook leading up to the 2020 elections.
Donald Trump loyalists and anti-vaxx doctors are embarking on the "ReAwaken America" tour to fuel disinformation about the election and pandemic.
Reddit banned the subreddit r/NoNewNormal after a site-wide protest against the company's inaction over COVID-19 disinformation.
Major subreddits are preventing non-members from seeing or joining their pages to protest the site's lack of action on disinformation.
"Nothing of substance has been done aside from quarantining a medium sized subreddit," the moderators wrote.
Pentagon and intelligence officials say the US's information-operation capabilities have atrophied in comparison to its main rivals: Russia and China.
Pentagon and intelligence officials say the US's information-operation capabilities have atrophied in comparison to its main rivals: Russia and China.
The Real Facebook Oversight Board is calling on Facebook to take further action to limit the spread of disinformation on the platform.
Joseph Mercola has an online audience of 3.6 million. His article "Could Hydrogen Peroxide Treat Coronavirus?" was shared on Facebook nearly 5,000 times.
Secretary of State Jena Griswold told Insider that she is concerned for her safety in the wake of lies about the 2020 election.
YouTube representatives told Insider that the company is looking into bringing in external researchers to study how its suggestion algorithm works.
A spiritualist trend for Grabovoi numbers has swept TikTok, but the inventor of the method has a troubling history in Russia.
Facebook is the primary source of vaccination misinformation and CEO Mark Zuckerberg knows it, says White House chief of staff Ron Klain.
Google specifically prohibits content that spreads medical misinformation on its video-sharing platform.
Moscow has used disinformation tactics since the Soviet era to sow division and doubt in the west. Social media is now powering those tools.