“Digital platforms are being misused to subvert science and spread disinformation and hate to billions of people,” António Guterres warned. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday implored governments around the world to take concerted action to curb the rapid online spread of destructive misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech. “Alarm bells over the latest form […]
PHOENIX, ARIZ. — For most of 2022, senior intelligence analyst Brian Liston noted it was quiet on the fake U.S. social media accounts believed to be from Russia. That changed in August as the U.S. midterm elections approached. “We saw these accounts beginning to spin up, talking about election fraud or that the election was going […]
The Georgia Republican, however, can still access and tweet from her official congressional account. Twitter has banned for good the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene because the Georgia Republican—a longtime purveyor of anti-vaccine and other dangerous conspiracies—refused to stop spreading deadly disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. “We permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of our […]
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Chinese operatives helped spread false messages that claimed the Trump administration was planning to impose a nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak, according to The New York Times. The Times says the messages, which first appeared last month as cellphone texts and social media feeds, claimed President Donald Trump […]