Category: Misleading Information

Former Cambridge Analytica Workers Say Firm Sent Foreigners To Advise U.S. Campaigns

LONDON — Cambridge Analytica assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens

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How Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your Thinking

Perhaps at some point in the past few years

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Cambridge Analytica Had a Role in Kenya Election, Too

NAIROBI — A data analytics firm at the center

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Facebook’s Rules For Accessing User Data Lured More Than Just Cambridge Analytica

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook last week suspended the Trump

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It’s Up To Us To Kill False Information. Good Luck.

. . . Many utopian claims were made for

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Russians Are Hacking Our Public-Commenting System, Too

What do Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), deceased actress Patty

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The Real Reason Congress Banned Assault Weapons in 1994 — and Why It Worked

Curator Note: The egregious or “over the top” distortion

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How to Monitor Fake News

WASHINGTON — The indictment of 13 Russians filed on

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On Social Media, Lax Enforcement Lets Impostor Accounts Thrive

When Hilary Mason, a data scientist and entrepreneur, discovered

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