Disinformation

Spotify's policies are expressly designed to encourage deadly disinformation about COVID-19

From the beginning of the pandemic, Spotify has been a go-to site for false statements about the threat represented by COVID-19, the steps to take in fighting the spread of disease, and the …

Sat Jan 29, 2022

HHS toolkit on how to talk to people about COVID-19 misinformation has wider value

You may not be out going door-to-door to fight COVID-19 in your neighborhood. Then again … you may be. People certainly are, and to great effect. But whether you’re just trying to keep safe in your …

Wed Nov 10, 2021

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 …

Wed Nov 3, 2021

One Florida school district with optional masks has had 17 staff die of COVID-19 since August

Florida’s death cult leader Gov. Ron DeSantis has more blood on his hands. Since the beginning of the school year, educators and school employees have found themselves in between a public that wants …

Thu Oct 14, 2021

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 …

Tue Oct 5, 2021

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 …

Wed Jul 7, 2021

Brief moment of integrity so enraged Fox News’ fans, they gave it a final shove into the abyss

Fox News surprised everyone—including their own Donald Trump-loving viewers—on Election Night last November by calling the race in Arizona for Joe Biden before the other networks, who waited several …

Thu Jun 10, 2021

Republicans aren't just telling a Big Lie—they're a domestic terror threat to our democracy

If you want to feel an even greater sense of urgency about saving our democracy than you already do, listen to this Pod Save America episode with Obama foreign policy alum Ben Rhodes, who’s out …

Sat Jun 5, 2021