Tagged With Misinformation

Elon Musk promoted coronavirus misinformation for months. Then his own infection kept him out of SpaceX's astronaut launch.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

YouTuber Jake Paul says he thinks COVID-19 is a hoax, despite case rates accelerating across the country

Rachel E. Greenspan

YouTube just suspended OANN after it said the conservative media outlet promoted a fake cure for COVID-19

Katie Canales

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly signed off on a Facebook algorithm change that favoured established news sites and made feeds 'nicer' after the election

Isobel Asher Hamilton

YouTube's algorithm is steering viewers away from anti-vaccine videos

Chris Stokel-Walker

The attorney for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse appears to be a QAnon believer

Rachel E. Greenspan

Facebook, Twitter, and Google are uniting to stop vaccine misinformation from spreading online

Allana Akhtar

A woman believed to be a QAnon follower was charged with killing a legal theorist trying to help her regain custody of her daughters

Rachel E. Greenspan

Twitter flagged 1 in every 500 election tweets as 'potentially misleading' — but 1 in 4 people saw them before the labels were added

Grace Dean

YouTube defends leaving up videos that falsely claim Trump won the election

Kate Duffy

A top US cybersecurity official reportedly expects to be fired for debunking election misinformation that was favourable to Trump

Isobel Asher Hamilton

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said Facebook didn't suspend Steve Bannon's account after he called for the beheading of federal officials because he hadn't violated its policies enough times

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook shut down a network of Steve Bannon-linked pages for spreading election misinformation – but unlike Twitter, it hasn't banned Trump's former chief strategist

Grace Dean

A top Biden staffer accused Facebook of 'shredding the fabric of our democracy' — yet another sign the social-media giant should fear the new administration

Isobel Asher Hamilton

2 suspected QAnon supporters were arrested after the discovery of a Hummer full of rifles and pistols near a Philadelphia ballot-counting centre

Rachel E. Greenspan

Facebook reportedly measures 'violence and incitement trends' — and it spiked by 45% during the week of the election

Tyler Sonnemaker

YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are scrambling to moderate posts from Trump surrogates threatening 'total war' and beheadings as the election comes down to Pennsylvania

Tyler Sonnemaker

Michigan says a 'dead voter' conspiracy theory shared by Donald Trump Jr. is probably the result of a records error

Rachel E. Greenspan

YouTube says it will allow videos with false or misleading election results, but won't advertise on them

Rachel E. Greenspan

Eric Trump shared a fake QAnon-promoted video of a person claiming to burn 80 Trump ballots. It had been debunked by officials the day before.

Eliza Relman