Twitter is considering changes to the way it contextualizes misleading tweets that the company doesn’t believe are dangerous enough to be removed from the platform outright. The company announced the […]
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Back to news homeIndivisible is training an army of volunteers to neutralize political misinformation
The grassroots Democratic organization Indivisible is launching its own team of stealth fact-checkers to push back against misinformation — an experiment in what it might look like to train up […]
Pro-Trump Twitter figure arrested for spreading vote-by-text disinformation in 2016
The man behind a once-influential pro-Trump account is facing charges of election interference for allegedly disseminating voting disinformation on Twitter in 2016. Federal prosecutors allege that Douglass Mackey, who used the […]
Debunk, don’t ‘prebunk,’ and other psychology lessons for social media moderation
If social networks and other platforms are to get a handle on disinformation, it’s not enough to know what it is — you have to know how people react to […]
EMA warns over doctored COVID-19 vaccine data hacked and leaked online
The European Medical Agency (EMA) has warned that information on COVID-19-related medicines and vaccines, which was stolen in a cyber attack last December and leaked online earlier this week, includes […]