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The NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes the US’s brand of recriminatory politics is spreading everywhere thanks to social media.

Misinformation is deadly. It kills humans and democracy.

After blocking a Texas social media law, the Supreme Court will likely be faced with debating social media companies role in moderating speech.

There are many proposals to regulate social media. Lets say you are a high-normal level of concerned about platforms making things terrible and you also begin to tune out when you hear about proposed social media legislation, or any sections of anything, but you would like to support some kind of …

A US bill requires social media platforms to disclose information about algorithms, content moderation, and more.

Posts about oversight written by Mike Masnick, Tim Cushing, Karl Bode, and Cathy Gellis

Misinformation is deadly. It kills humans and democracy.

What could journalists and social scientists shed light on if they had a better view of the digital world?

All of us have some responsibility for this serious threat to society posed by misinformation and disinformation on social media.

Guest columnist Kathie Obradovich writes that the era of misinformation that mars America today threatens democracy.