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.
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‘Your Page is at Risk of Being Unpublished’ Facebook Warning
Page administrators reported receiving warnings en masse from the social network.
Facebook ‘News’ Service to Include ‘Diverse’ Category, Sites Associated With White Nationalism
“I cannot fathom what Facebook is thinking,” one expert said of the move.
California Law Limiting Freelance Publication Options Could Face Legal Threat
AB5 — introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez — goes into effect in January 2020.
ABC News Yanks ‘Slaughter in Syria’ Video Revealed as YouTube Clip Filmed in Kentucky
The segment aired on two network news shows before finally being pulled.
Trump Administration Rushes To Distance Itself From Massacre Video at Far-Right ‘Meme Event’
The White House claimed that the president “strongly condemns” the video, even though he had not seen it.
Facebook on Allowing Political Ads with Disinformation: ‘A Benefit to See What Politicians Are Saying’
A Trump advertisement smearing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is running on the social media platform, despite the fact that it has already been debunked by multiple fact-checking sites.
Did a Veteran Sex Crimes Prosecutor Say Christine Blasey Ford ‘Has No Case’?
October 2018 opened with confusion among the American political set over an investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after multiple women publicly accused him of sexual assault. One woman, California psychology professor and Stanford …
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