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Tag: Rumors and Misinformation

Kari Lake Will Present Election Fraud Claims in an Arizona County Court

Her case had relied on a hodgepodge of claims that the election in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, was corrupted and should be invalidated....

The Year in Micro News

Plenty of big news happened in 2022. Frightening, fascinating, devastating and inspiring news with global implications. You can almost certainly, off the top of...

The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?

This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few...

Kari Lake Sues Arizona’s Largest County, Seeking to Overturn Her Defeat

A number of those cited as experts in the lawsuit and one of the lawyers who filed the case — Kurt Olsen — are...

Sympathy, and Job Offers, for Twitter’s Misinformation Experts

In the weeks since Elon Musk took over Twitter, dozens of people responsible for keeping dangerous or inaccurate material in check on the service...

Elon Musk Reinstates Trump’s Twitter Account

Mr. Musk, a longtime self-described “free speech absolutist,” had said in May that he would reverse the permanent ban of Mr. Trump on Twitter...

Elon Musk’s Twitter Did Not Perform at Its Best on Election Day

Before the sky had fully lightened in Arizona on Tuesday morning, one of the most pervasive false narratives of the midterm elections was already...

What Is Mastodon and Why Are People Leaving Twitter for It?

Mastodon is a part of the Fediverse, or federated universe, a group of federated platforms that share communication protocols.Unlike Twitter, Mastodon presents posts in...

How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack

WASHINGTON — Within hours of the brutal attack last month on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the House, activists...

Twitter’s Advertisers Pull Back as Layoffs Sweep Through Company

The pullback of advertisers from Twitter gathered steam on Friday amid growing fear that misinformation and hate speech would be allowed to proliferate on...

On Social Media, Hunting for Voter Fraud Becomes a Game

On the messaging app Telegram this week, 300 people gathered in a channel devoted to Arizona politics to play an online game.The rules were...

Truth Social’s Influence Grows Despite Its Business Problems

Truth Social, the right-wing social network, has faced one business calamity after the next since it launched in February. Two executives resigned after its...

Pelosi Attack Highlights Rising Fears of Political Violence

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have watched warily in recent years as threats and harassment against them have crescendoed, privately worrying that the brutal...

Elon Musk Starts Putting His Imprint on Twitter

On Elon Musk’s first full day as the owner of Twitter, the social media company immediately began to feel his imprint.Twitter’s top executives were...

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