Category: Misleading Information

Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts. So Why Are They Still Easy to Spot?

WASHINGTON — Executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google pledged

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How to Fix Facebook? We Asked 9 Experts

Colin Stretch, the general counsel of Facebook, appeared on

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Internet Giants Pique Senators With Restraint

WASHINGTON — Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter appeared

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Russia’s Election Meddling Backfired — Big-Time

Intelligence officers sometimes talk about “blowback,” when covert actions

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Did Twitter Kill the First Amendment?

These questions arise because the jurisprudence of the First

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Is Facebook’s Fact-Checking Effective? Researchers Offer Warnings

Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Facebook has taken a

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YouTube Gave Russian Outlet Portal Into U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO — When the state-backed Russian news channel

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The Justices Need Fact-Checkers

Supreme Court justices have a tough job. They are

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Google Serves Fake News Ads On Fact-Check Sites (Really)

SAN FRANCISCO — The headlines are eye-catching. Melania Trump

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How the Russians Pretended to Be Texans — and Texans Believed Them

In early 2016, while researching some of the most

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