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Analysis, Disinformation, Reporting
Facebook Spread Fake News, Hired ‘Trackers’ to Smear Critics A bombshell report from the New York Times shows the extent of the social media network's efforts to rein in people speaking out about their initiatives.

In mid-November 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell report about Facebook that convulsed both traditional and social media. The beleaguered site has been at the center of scandal after fake news scandal from ...

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Analysis, Social Media, Terrorism
White Supremacist Arrested After Calling a Domestic Terror Attack ‘a Dry Run’ Relatives say that Jeffrey "Raph" Clark, who referred to himself as "the Che Guevara of the alt-right," openly fantasized about sparking a race war.

A man with ties to some of the most violent hate groups in the United States has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearms just weeks after his younger brother — also reportedly a ...

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Makeshift Bombs Sent to Subjects of Major Conspiracy Theories Where mass communication is used to spread lies and disinformation and smear political enemies, stochastic terrorism follows.

In the final weeks of October 2018, following months of increasingly shrill, increasingly baroque conspiracy theories pushed by official after elected official, someone began sending mail bombs out to their favorite subjects. The first person to ...

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Analysis
Rumors About Caravan of Asylum-Seekers Reach New Heights As a large group of people hoping to seek asylum in the United States continues to stream toward the border, misinformation and disinformation about who they are and what they want is everywhere.

As a caravan consisting of thousands of asylum-seekers from Central America drew ever closer to Mexico’s border with the United States to prepare to turn themselves in to border authorities en masse and request asylum, ...

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Foreign Influence Operations Infiltrated, Polarized Online Communities Researchers say the end game was chaos, confusion, and voter suppression — with a side of government propaganda.

The ongoing scandals over data privacy, in which social media giants were found to be (among other things) flooding selected readers with hypertargeted and corrosive political advertising, is still unfolding — and it will continue ...

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