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Twitter is bolstering its efforts to point out misinformation on the platform, a long-standing problem across social media that has taken on new urgency amid last year’s election and through the pandemic. “Starting today, we will begin applying labels to Tweets
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Former President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered his first major address since leaving office, and he picked up right where he left off: attacking opponents and spreading false claims, including that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Trump’s inaccuracies in his
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Dr. Thomas K. Lew I have been seeing a lot of posts on social media these days disparaging the utility of the COVID-19 vaccines. They attempt to poke holes in the logic of these inoculations with innocuous sounding questions: After
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WASHINGTON — A screaming man with his fist raised, a Byzantine cross emblazoned in red on his T-shirt. A white flag with a lone green pine tree and the words “An Appeal to Heaven” fluttering over the angry crowd. The
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Social media platforms have been instrumental in allowing misinformation and distrust to proliferate, hindering the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as well as contributing to deeply cut social and political divides, and an insurrection on the Capitol. As a community nurse in
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They’re banned but not gone. Key allies of former president Donald Trump, who were expelled from Twitter after the Capitol riot, are still getting their messages heard there. Trump lawyers Lin Wood and Sidney Powell and pardoned former National Security
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Misleading claims shared by prominent conservatives that wind turbines caused massive winter storm power outages in Texas whipped through Facebook without fact-checking labels, racking up millions of views, according to a new report shared exclusively with USA TODAY. Human rights
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The claim: Grotesque images show QAnon-related scene of cannibalism A Feb. 21 Facebook post uses disturbing images from the fictional horror movie trailer “Thanksgiving” to promote baseless QAnon conspiracy theories about a “deep state” responsible for sex trafficking and cannibalism.
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WASHINGTON – A blistering dissent in a high-profile election case written by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas prompted blowback Monday from Democrats who accused one of the court’s most conservative members of embracing baseless claims of voter fraud promoted by President Donald Trump after
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Social media platforms have been instrumental in allowing misinformation and distrust to proliferate, hindering the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as well as contributing to deeply cut social and political divides, and an insurrection on the Capitol. As a community nurse in
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