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Fact checkers at outlets like the Washington Post and PolitiFact eagerly dismissed the COVID lab leak theory in 2020, and some were forced to issue updates and corrections.

Posts about bivens claim written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

Websites infamous for spreading fake news have been earning thousands of dollars from Google Ads.

Being one of Facebook's anointed "fact checkers," with the ability to suppress the reach publications at will, liberal "fact checker" PolitiFact has now resorted to posting links to articles from rival publications in Facebook comments underneath Breitbart News posts.

Being one of Facebook's anointed "fact checkers," with the ability to suppress the reach publications at will, liberal "fact checker" PolitiFact has now resorted to posting links to articles from rival publications in Facebook comments underneath Breitbart News posts.

The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.

Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The probe, the first ever conducted at this scale, revealed that Googles sprawling automated digital ad operation placed ads from major brands on global websites that spread false claims on such topics as vaccines, Covid-19, climate change and elections.The

A ProPublica analysis reveals how Google ad money enriches peddlers of election conspiracies, vaccine misinformation and climate change denial around the world.

We identified websites that collected Google ad revenue despite publishing false claims about COVID-19, climate change and other issues in apparent violation of Google policies.