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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Imagine, if you will: A presidential election in which even the most basic facts are riddled with confusing disinformation, a far-right candidate appealing to authoritarians and repulsing many women with misogynistic comments, and connections to political aspirants such as Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon. This is Brazil in 2018, and the person who was …
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As the United States debated putting Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court despite multiple assault allegations, rumors began to fly about a hearing the previous day, including a bombshell that purportedly appeared in the Wall Street Journal: WSJ: Mitchell advised Republicans that to continue questioning Kavanaugh she was required by her oath in Arizona to …
Peter Fonda called for Barron Trump to be kidnapped in a Twitter rant about the administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. He later deleted the tweet and apologized.
A fabricated screenshot led to another online attack against the California congresswoman.
Unproven claims that a Planned Parenthood group said there needs to be a Disney princes who’s had an abortion are based on a screengrab of a tweet.
A website that allows users to create fake tweets from public figures is behind false reports that U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee tweeted that President Trump is determined to start war with North Japan.
Once again, online trolls used a “prank” website to attack the Texas lawmaker.
A June 2017 trolling attempt was part of a pattern of attacking non-white lawmakers’ intellectual capabilities.
Claims that 179 children went missing in Indiana in the first 45 days of 2017 appear to contradict official stats on missing children in Indian.
