The tweets began to arrive Wednesday night, carrying explosive claims that people in Michigan were voting under the names of dead people. Austen Fletcher, a former Ivy League football player […]
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Back to news home‘Stop the Steal’ Facebook Group Is Taken Down
OAKLAND, Calif. — The first post in the new Facebook group that was started on Wednesday was innocuous enough. “Welcome” to Stop the Steal, it said. But an hour later, […]
On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse
That gust of wind you felt coming from Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning was the social media industry’s tentative sigh of relief. For the last four years, executives at Facebook, […]
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube Survived Election Day. More Tests Loom.
OAKLAND, Calif. — For months, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube prepared to clamp down on misinformation on Election Day. On Tuesday, most of their plans went off without a hitch. The […]
Fox News Helped Fuel Trump’s Rise. Now It’s Reporting on a Possible Fall.
President Trump and Fox News have a complicated relationship. Election Day did not help. The cable news channel that kick-started Donald J. Trump’s political career was suddenly in the position […]
Fox News Made a Big Election Call in Arizona, Angering Trump and Buoying Biden
It was just after 12:30 a.m. on election night, and Fox News was under fire. “Arnon, we’re getting a lot of incoming here, and we need you to answer some […]
Investing for the Future in the United States of Agita
Four years ago, I didn’t have a plan. Donald Trump was the surprise winner of the 2016 presidential election, and I wasn’t quite sure what to say to the people […]
How a Century of Real-Estate Tax Breaks Enriched Donald Trump
Twenty-five years before he was elected president, Donald J. Trump went to Capitol Hill to complain that Congress had closed too many tax loopholes. He warned that one industry, in […]
It’s Time to Talk About Social Security. No More Waiting.
Social Security has always seemed like a future problem, with experts long predicting a benefits squeeze in the decades ahead. But the coronavirus has put tens of millions of Americans […]
Why the Best G.D.P. Report Ever Won’t Mean the Economy Has Healed
The United States almost certainly just experienced its fastest three months of economic growth on record. That doesn’t mean the economy is strong. The Commerce Department on Thursday will release […]