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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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 …
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Facebook Spread Fake News, Hired ‘Trackers’ to Smear Critics
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 the mass displacement and genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya people to the Brexit crisis — all enabled and abetted by disinformation and …
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White Supremacist Arrested After Calling a Domestic Terror Attack ‘a Dry Run’
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 known white supremacist — committed suicide. According to court documents, 30-year-old Jeffrey “Raph” Clark and his 23-year-old brother Edward Clark openly …
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Foreign Influence Operations Infiltrated, Polarized Online Communities
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 to evolve for some time as new pieces of evidence and data are unearthed and put together to get a …
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Bots, Trolls Propelled Faux ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Controversy
The “Star Wars” franchise was not immune from the sort of controversy that has seeped into every tiny nook and cranny of the American public discourse, thanks to the ubiquity of social media and those who wish to exploit conflicts in order to create chaos. In that vein, the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was …
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