Capitol Attack Suspect’s Group Was Linked to Police Around the United States Thousands of officials were revealed to have been involved with the "Oath Keepers" in October 2021.
In ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home,’ Disinformation is a Supervillain J.K. Simmons says any resemblance of J. Jonah Jameson to actual conspiracy theorists is a "coincidence."
Kenosha Homicide Trial Riddled With Disinformation, Weaponized Narratives Kyle Rittenhouse faces several felony charges for shooting three people in August 2020, killing two of them.
Houston Police Attempt to Link ‘Drug Spiking’ to Fatal Astroworld Concert Networks uncritically took the local police chief's claim as "confirmation."
Despite Pledges, Hearings, Facebook Still Pushing Climate Disinformation The intersection of disinformation and a changing climate carries threats that have so far gone largely unimagined.
Lincoln Project Reveals It Staged Tiki Torch Stunt at Right-Wing Republican Rally The incident directly referenced the white nationalist gathering in Virginia in 2017 that culminated in Heather Heyer's death.
‘Facebook’s Top Ten’ on Twitter Abruptly Changes On September 28 2021, a single tweet from the “Facebook’s Top 10” Twitter account became notable not for what it showed, but for what it didn’t: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Insider2. CNN3. CNN4. Occupy Democrats5. The New York Times6. The Onion7. Peachy Sunday8. […]
DHS Report Confirms Border Officials’ Surveillance Against Journalists and Activists Federal officials say border authorities wrongfully conducted surveillance against journalists and activists crossing between the United States and Mexico — but the United States stopped short of commenting on whether they broke the law in doing so. The Department of Homeland Security’s report addressed a practice first brought to light in a in a March […]
New Book Claims Zuckerberg Let Trump Lie to Avoid Federal Oversight A new biography of right-wing tech mogul Peter Thiel claims that, according to him, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg struck a deal allowing Donald Trump and his allies to spread disinformation in exchange for a lack of federal oversight. The claim was first published in Chafin’s book The Contrarian, excerpts of which were adapted into an […]
Right-Wing Disinformation Surges As California Recall Election Unfolds As the recall election against California governor Gavin Newsom drew closer to a close, both the leading right-wing candidate and conspiracy theorists continued pushing disinformation painting the process as “rigged” before polls even opened. As NBC News reported, Republican Larry Elder encouraged supporters to visit a website that claimed it had gathered evidence of fraud […]
