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The Facebook pages that spread the most election misinformation belong to Trump, his son, and a set of right-wing commentators, new research finds
The sitting US president and his eldest son were among the top five "superspreaders" of election mi…
Ben Gilbert
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40 Facebook pages identified as 'super-spreaders' of election misinformation are reaching millions of users
There are 40 pages on Facebook that act as 'super-spreaders' of voting and election misinformation,…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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Connecticut will pay a specialist $150,000 to combat election misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms
The misinformation specialist is tasked with combatting "malicious foreign actors" and ensuring vot…
Rosie Bradbury,Beatrice Nolan
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The battle over voting rights and election misinformation is going local
Republican legislators are fighting to restrict voting access in states Biden won as Democrats try …
Grace Panetta
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Elon Musk's AI chatbot is trying to fix its election misinformation problem
Elon Musk's X updates its AI chatbot after secretaries of state accused it of spreading election mi…
Alice Tecotzky
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YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are scrambling to moderate posts from Trump surrogates threatening 'total war' and beheadings as the election comes down to Pennsylvania
Twitter locked Steve Bannon's account and YouTube removed one of his videos as social-media giants …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Chris Christie says Trump's 2020 Election Night speech was 'one of the most dangerous pieces of political rhetoric' he's ever heard
Christie also wrote in his memoir that Trump's speech made him "physically sick," but he didn't rul…
Eliza Relman,Sonam Sheth
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A top US cybersecurity official reportedly expects to be fired for debunking election misinformation that was favorable to Trump
Christopher Krebs reportedly angered White House officials by debunking election misinformation wit…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus compares Facebook to Putin and Fox News as top source of election misinformation as the company tests new COVID-19 lie-detector
Facebook is piloting an early-warning system to alert moderators to posts with potential misinforma…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Facebook failed to put fact-check labels on 60% of the most viral posts containing Georgia election misinformation that its own fact-checkers had debunked, a new report says
Facebook is still failing to take action against viral misinformation "copycats," according to an a…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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YouTube blocks Rudy Giuliani from earning ad dollars after he repeatedly pushed election misinformation
The move follows months of Giuliani spreading conspiracies, and comes as Trump's lawyer faces a $1.…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Facebook is now actively demoting false election posts and limiting livestreams in an attempt to crack down on growing misinformation about votes
As counting continues for the 2020 presidential election, Facebook says it is "seeing more reports …
Grace Dean
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Facebook labeled President Trump's late-night election posts about Democrats stealing the election as misinformation
President Trump's false claims about the election being stolen are being flagged by Facebook. Every…
Azmi Haroun
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YouTube just suspended OANN after it said the conservative media outlet promoted a fake cure for COVID-19
YouTube suspended OANN for violating the site's misinformation policy after the conservative news o…
Katie Canales
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Facebook is reportedly planning to form a commission for advice on election-related issues
This election body would be tasked with handling issues related to elections. These include poli…
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TikTok is battling false voter-fraud allegations spread on the platform by conservative accounts
As tech companies attempt to stop the spread of misinformation after the election, false allegation…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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Facebook shut down a network of Steve Bannon-linked pages for spreading election misinformation – but unlike Twitter, it hasn't banned Trump's former chief strategist
The Facebook pages promoted the "Stop the Steal" campaign, which alleges election fraud, and some l…
Grace Dean
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Twitter slapped warnings on a wave of tweets by GOP officials and Trump allies making unsubstantiated claims of election fraud and interference in Pennsylvania
Twitter also limited the reach of the tweets for violating its policy against "manipulating or inte…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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TikTok removed 400,000 videos in the 2nd half of 2020 to combat election and COVID-19 misinformation
In total from July 1 to December 31 last year, the company said it removed more than 89.1 million v…
Connor Perrett
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Around half of the top US Facebook posts since Election Day are sowing doubt about the legitimacy of the election
The top most interacted-with Facebook posts in the last 7 days were dominated by misinformation fro…