Tech giants formally subpoenaed after lackluster cooperation with Jan. 6 probe

A slew of the world’s most powerful tech and social media companies failed to give the Jan. 6 Committee adequate information in response to an inquiry for records tied to the attack of the U.S. …

Twitter has a new CEO. What does that mean for harassment on the platform?

by Reina Sultan

This article was originally published at Prism

Last week, Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey announced that he would be stepping down as the company’s CEO. In the post, Dorsey also …

As Ethiopia’s civil war becomes an ethnic cleansing event, Facebook again enables genocide

We already know, just from the company’s behavior in the United States, that Facebook seems content to continue to permit the spread of extremist disinformation and organizing on its social media …

Breitbart tops list of publishers pushing climate change denial on Facebook

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released a new report on Tuesday detailing how little Facebook has done to mitigate the spread of climate change disinformation. The report, which you can …

Don't look now, but we're being 'Facebooked' into fascism

As political bloggers, it’s our job to stay up to date on what’s going on in the national “conversation,” however ridiculous that conversation often becomes. Occasionally it’s necessary, though, to …

Hacked Oath Keepers data exposes how deeply ‘patriot’ extremism has penetrated the mainstream

The recent exposure of the Oath Keepers’ membership through hacked data revealed a great deal about their spread—both within the ranks of law enforcement and among elected officials. But the …

Facebook hoaxes helped boost insurrection, white nationalism, and COVID. Employees are fed up

A new bundle of reporting is out on what’s being branded as the “Facebook Papers,” a mountain of leaked internal company documents and communications currently being combed over by a …

AT&T has yet to answer for its support of OAN, and customers have had it

NAACP President Derrick Johnson is set to meet with AT&T leadership at the company’s Washington, D.C. headquarters today to discuss AT&T’s relationship with One America News (OAN). Johnson …

Reuters uncovers deeper connections between deadly hoax network OAN and corporate giant AT&T

As America grapples with the very real threat of fascism, the fledgling “One America News” network has staked out a position as one of the nation’s dominant promoters of pro-Trump, …

Whistleblower confirms that Facebook intentionally profits from sowing social chaos, violence

For a while, many of us have known from external studies and leaked documents that Facebook played a significant role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection as the chief engine of radicalization and …

Facebook is still a cesspool of pandemic hoaxes, and it's killing people

Earlier in the year, Media Matters reported on the presence of dozens of Facebook groups promoting the newest hoax cure in the COVID-19 pandemic: ivermectin. Primarily used to fight parasites in …

Mob rule is overtaking America, driven by the collapse of the Republican Party

In a profoundly detached fit of magical thinking, GOP leader Mitch McConnell told journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that the Trump era was on the wane.

In their recently released book Peril, …

Facebook’s vapid half-measures to reel in spread of COVID denialism aren’t working, study finds

It’s been clear ever since the emergence of a resistance movement to COVID-19 public health measures that the insanely irrational, anti-science conspiracism and misinformation that fueled it was …

If you wondered whether we were fighting a righteous fight against Kennedy, Jen Psaki confirms

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki points out why we’re fighting the righteous fight against Robert Kennedy, Jr: 

Her source? This report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which found …

Study finds YouTube’s algorithms regularly promote content that violates content guidelines

Social media companies like YouTube—as we saw when the video platform suspended and then reinstated the channel for Right Wing Watch—are prisoners of their own algorithms, which are the keys to their …

It's time for Democrats to completely rethink political advertising

Although largely forgotten now, 2012 was a defining moment in testing the theory of whether spending large sums of money for a barrage of negative ads in swing states would make a difference come …

Watchdog site’s YouTube channel hit with short-lived suspension as company quickly backtracks

Large social-media companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have been struggling for a long time with the continuing spread of right-wing extremism and its attendant conspiracism primarily on …

The right-wing indoctrination machine sets its sights on kindergarteners

Republicans are currently obsessed with young kids. I don’t mean in the Matt Gaetz way, I mean as far as attacking kids’ toys, books, and programs. The GOP recently and publicly lost it over Dr. Seuss …

Tucker Carlson declares that vaccination is 'medical Jim Crow' because he wants you to be outraged

It’s almost impossible to run any sort of social media platform without community standards. Those guidelines may be eternally shifting, the proper application of those guidelines may be extremely …

Postal Services' covert operations program using controversial online tools to surveil Americans

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is still intent on messing with our U.S. Postal Service (USPS), permanently slowing down delivery of the mail, and undermining the one thing the agency is supposed to …