It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from […]
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When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.
Several million people were listening in February when Joe Rogan falsely declared that “party drugs” were an “important factor in […]
Elon Musk’s crusade against the extremism research organization the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) will have its day in […]
X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system, will become “ineligible for revenue share,” Elon […]
The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, including […]
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YouTube was the slowest major platform to disallow misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election and almost three years later, the […]
The fake image was shared by a verified Twitter account masquerading as Bloomberg and went viral after being amplified by […]
Hirabai Koli’s medical reports were normal—but she wasn’t happy. She had been monitoring her weight over the first two months […]