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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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Four years ago, B.C.’s NDP won a decisive majority under the leadership of former attorney general David Eby in a snap election in the early months of the pandemic. In 2024, more than a week after the Oct. 19 election, the NDP would remain in government after recounts in many very tight races with …
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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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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has vowed to launch an investigation into Google’s rampant election interference on Thursday, affirming that the tech giant “is waging war on the democratic process.” In a statement posted on X, Bailey remarked, “I am launching an investigation into Google – …
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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 …
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