Teen Vogue Publishes, Unpublishes Mysterious Sponsored ‘Facebook Election Integrity’ Piece A strange and initially unlabeled piece of sponsored Facebook public relations material masquerading as editorial content disappeared soon after it was properly labeled.
Disinformation Inflames Tensions After United States Kills Iranian Commander As diplomatic tensions dramatically escalate, so too does the propaganda and corrosive disinformation.
Rudy Giuliani Criticized After Describing Himself as a ‘Former Attorney General’ on Facebook The page also listed the former New York City mayor as a "government official."
Was Fox News Taken Off American Forces Network Radio? The Defense Department refuted the claim that the network had been taken off its services.
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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Grills Facebook Chief Executive Officer Over Fact-Checking, Political Ads "So you won't take down lies or you will take down lies?" the Democratic Congresswoman asked Mark Zuckerberg.
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.
Vietnam Veterans Group: ‘Foreign Criminals’ Targeting Servicemembers for Online Exploitation The group called on the Trump administration to "take swift, coordinated actions" to protect veterans.
How to Slow the Spread of Disinformation: A Guide for Newsrooms Every day, a new fake story emerges with the power to affect policy or further corrode relationships, from interpersonal to international. This is corrosive disinformation, as different from garden-variety scams and hoaxes as a molehill is from a mountain. The difference is intent — not just to mislead, but to defraud and misinform — and scale. Simple […]
