Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Still Going Strong on Social Media: Report The Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Vax Watch say the majority of disinformation comes from just twelve purveyors, most of whom remain on platforms despite openly flouting stated rules and guidelines.
How to Fight Disinformation: Part II — Gaslighting The brazen and blatant lies of gaslighting campaigns are difficult to fight with fact-checking alone, but they can be defeated through a multidisciplinary approach.
Flint Robocalls Purportedly Advised Voters to Avoid Long Lines and ‘Vote Tomorrow’ Michigan's Attorney General warned of election day robocalls received by Flint residents warning of "long lines" -- and advising them to vote "tomorrow."
As U.S. Election Looms, Agitprop Floods Social Media Platforms Inflammatory and corrosive rhetoric is being laundered via social media commentary from fringe sites into the mainstream at a time of increasing uncertainty and instability.
‘Choose’ or ‘Pick’ Your ‘Quarantine House’ and Other Engagement Bait During COVID-19 "Pick your quarantine house" memes are fun, and a bit of needed levity during a dark time -- and here's why they're suddenly everywhere.
‘COVID-19 Had Us All Fooled, but Now We Might Have Finally Found Its Secret’ Medium Post A viral post about COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine shared to Medium's platform has since been removed, but copies continued spreading on social media.
How Many Moms Are in ‘One Million Moms’? We're 99.99999999 percent sure it's nowhere close to a million.
Canadian Conservative Leader’s Resignation Follows String of Public Falsehoods Party members accused Andrew Scheer of using their money to pay for his kids to attend private school.
Avoid #GivingTuesday Scams "Giving Tuesday" follows "Cyber Monday," but some companies are just lining their pockets; here are the facts.
UK’s Conservative Party’s Communications Team Briefly Rebrands to Mislead Public The Twitter account @CCHQPress switched its name and logo to mimic a fact-checking site.
