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Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in October, the self-proclaimed [...]

One of the most unsettling revelations in the cache of internal documents leaked by the former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has been just how little we know about Facebook, and [...]

Election-related falsehoods have subsided, but misleading claims about the coronavirus vaccines are surging -- often spread by the same people. Sidney Powell, a lawyer who was part of President Trump's [...]

Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line. SAN FRANCISCO -- In the tense days after the presidential election, [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker and Elizabeth Dwoskin In the final months of the presidential campaign, prominent associates of President Donald Trump and conservative groups with vast online followings have flirted with, [...]

Breitbart, The Washington Examiner and others amplify false claims of rampant cheating in what a new Harvard study calls a ''propaganda feedback loop.'' In the final stretch of the 2020 [...]

The state will combat false information on social media and even buy Google ads against it. But few states are following suit. Like so many modern election sagas, it started [...]

Powerful people must now anticipate how their words might be twisted into weapons in the online information war. This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign [...]

Byline: TAMSIN McMAHON, Staff SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Lead An advertising boycott against Facebook Inc. gained steam over the weekend despite new promises by the social media giant to restrict [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Wednesday to rail against social media companies, escalating a new battle with Twitter over using a fact-check label on his [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler WASHINGTON - It's time for our annual roundup of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. Once again, we face the challenge posed by President Donald Trump, who [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., 'made up a conversation. He made a conversation that didn't exist. He never thought in a million years that I was going to [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Like most of you, I'm deeply indebted to social media. Without my various feeds, how would I know that a heroic Belgian motorcyclist had rescued [...]

This appeared in Saturday's Washington Post. - - - Lots of people want to interfere in the upcoming U.S. presidential election - including Americans. Because there is little authorities can [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, is calling for the breakup of the social media juggernaut, citing the threat of the platform's unchecked power and that of [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler;Salvador Rizzo;Meg Kelly Three years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading claims -- a milestone that would have [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler;Salvador Rizzo;Meg Kelly In 2017, President Trump made nearly 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added another 5,689, for a total of 7,688. Now, with a [...]

Byline: Sarah Cahlan When it comes to campaign ads, there's a lot to be wary of. Not only do they interrupt favorite TV shows, sneak into social feeds and infiltrate [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler;Salvador Rizzo;Meg Kelly President Trump's proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day [...]

Byline: Talia Lavin As a conflagration spread through the ancient timbers of Notre Dame Cathedral's attic on Monday, a parallel fire was spreading on social media. This one was willfully [...]

[ To help readers better understand the information landscape in this election season, journalists at The Times have been collecting examples of electioneering that have the potential to confuse or [...]

President Trump, the first president to rely on social media as a primary means of communicating with the public, has elevated early-morning tweeting to a veritable art form. His musings [...]

Good Tuesday. Want this in your inbox every morning? Sign up here.) Tech's tensions with government may be a big problem Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google will testify before [...]

Byline: Max Boot'A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.'It tells you all you need to know about how easily falsehoods [...]

Byline: Salvador RizzoLet's dive right into the pile of wrongness on President Trump's Twitter feed from Dec. 8 to Dec. 10.'The Paris Agreement isn't working out so well for Paris. [...]

The United States and its allies are under attack. The cyberwar we've feared for a generation is well underway, and we are losing. This is the forest, and the stuff [...]

Byline: Neela Banerjee, Jessica Lee Since at least the 1950s, fossil fuel organizations such as (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335600-1954-API-PR-Classrooms.html) the American Petroleum Institute have targeted U.S. classrooms as they sought to shape future [...]