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WASHINGTON (THE WASHINGTON POST) – Elon Musk personally recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies, while false information about the rapidly changing war between Gaza Strip militants and Israel proliferated on the social media platform X over the weekend. “For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on […]

Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid a legal campaign from conservative politicians and activists who accuse them of colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views. The escalating campaign - led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans in Congress and state government - has cast a pall over programs that study not just political falsehoods but also the quality of

Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid a legal campaign from conservative politicians and activists who accuse them of colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views. The escalating campaign - led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans in Congress and state government - has cast a pall over programs that study not just political falsehoods but also the quality of

Theres no evidence Trump dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. His campaign is still actively being promoted.

Determining whats real online is getting more difficult. But there are steps you can take to deal with it.

In a sea of misinformation, it's getting harder to distinguish what is AI-generated content from human content.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

By John Solomon A digital free-speech watchdog is warning that federally funded researchers have captured and examined millions of Twitter posts they deemed to be “misinformation” during the 2020 election and used them to devise new strategies that one day could empower Big Tech to censor or throttl

A free-speech watchdog is warning that the U.S. government has funded research intended to develop stealth censorship programs – ways to censor what Americans say, and see, without letting the speakers know they're being stifled.

The case is the latest challenge against alleged government “jawboning” - informal government efforts to pressure private entities.