Facebook is extending its ban on coronavirus related misinformation to include false claims about “vaccines in general during the pandemic.” This means the company will remove...
Twitter is launching Birdwatch, a tool where users can write informative notes to fact check tweets. The program is only in a pilot phase with select...
Online misinformation fell 73% in the week following President Donald Trump’s ban on Twitter, according to the San Francisco-based analytics firm Zignal Labs. The firm also...
Internet star Jake Paul called COVID-19 a hoax, incorrectly compared it to the flu, called 98% of news fake, and doubted medical experts in an interview...
Since the election, millions of people have been joining alternative social media platforms like Parler that have much more lax content regulations than traditional sites. Last...
When President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20, Donald Trump will lose the special protections he currently has on sites like Twitter. Twitter grants certain...
Multiple agencies, public officials, and social media platforms have debunked several election-related conspiracy theories, including one that alleges poll workers in Arizona sabotaged votes for President...
Facebook announced in September that it would ban all new political ads the week before the election, but the company’s first day enforcing the policy was...
Facebook announced Monday that it was expanding its hate speech policy to ban content that denies or distorts the Holocaust, a significant reversal from Mark Zuckerberg,...
As the election draws closer, most of the major social media platforms have started announcing new policy changes to prepare for Nov. 3. YouTube said Thursday...