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Happy Election Day! Surely everything will go smoothly this time, right? Send news tips to: will.oremus@washpost.com. Here’s how Meta, TikTok, YouTube and X are moderating election threats. Four years after the major social media platforms took unprecedented steps to crack down on falsehoods in the …
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3 November 2024ShareSaveMike WendlingShareSaveGetty ImagesRumours, misleading allegations and outright lies about voting and fraud are flooding online spaces in unprecedented numbers in advance of the US election.Hundreds of incidents involving purported voting irregularities are being collected …
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After rolling back its election misinformation policy last year, YouTube allowed right-wing media figures to undermine confidence in the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast, with streamers asserting that “the only way this election can be won from the left is if it’s stolen,” …
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CHICAGO — The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Rev. Mitchell Johnson’s resignation came at the …
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Former President Donald Trump and popular podcast host Joe Rogan called out Big Tech’s interference in the 2020 presidential election, predicting a new era where young Americans will break free from censorship and leftist “wokeness.” During Friday’s edition of the Joe Rogan Experience, Trump …
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Donald Trump is posting ads on Snapchat for the first time this election – and one of them uses a photo of him giving a thumbs-up at this year’s memorial honoring the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.The ad, which is just 15 seconds long, shows a video of Trump at …
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Online marketplace Etsy, famous for its small, independent shops, is removing all QAnon merchandise from its site, the latest in a series of platform crackdowns on the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory.QAnon followers have an intertwined series of beliefs, based on anonymous Web postings …
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A Meta senior software engineer was reportedly caught on camera boasting about his company’s ability to manipulate elections. Meta Senior Software Engineer Jeevan Gyawali was apparently caught on camera by James O’Keefe’s organization, O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), smugly explaining how platforms …
Read MoreThree One Nation candidates in the Queensland election have posted conspiracy theories to social media, including one posting about the QAnon movement.One Nation candidate for the Gold Coast seat of Southport, David Vaughan, posted to Facebook on May 13 with a caption signed off as “Q” and hashtags …
Read MoreDENVER—“In five years, everyone will know the Earth is flat,” Scott Simons tells me as we wait in line for the second annual Flat Earth Conference.Scott, holding the Utah license plate “ITSFLAT,” is explaining how the Flat Earth revolution will bring “societal collapse” because the bulk of our …
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