YouTube’s Power of the Purse
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‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era
WASHINGTON — Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month, Justin Bieber leaned into the camera and adjusted the front of his black knit beanie. For…
Google Sets Limit on How Long It Will Store Some Data
OAKLAND, Calif. — After years of criticism about how it keeps a record of what people do online, Google said it would start automatically deleting location history and records of…
41 Cities, Many Sources: How False Antifa Rumors Spread Locally
In recent weeks, as demonstrations against racism spread across the country, residents in at least 41 U.S. cities and towns became alarmed by rumors that the loose collective of anti-fascist…
Social Media Giants Support Racial Justice. Their Products Undermine It.
Several weeks ago, as protests erupted across the nation in response to the police killing of George Floyd, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a long and heartfelt post on his Facebook page,…
Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media
On Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of posts are circulating saying that George Floyd is not actually dead. Conspiracy theorists are baselessly arguing that George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic…
How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online
Interactions on Facebook for popular videos 2.5 million interactions “Plandemic” Pentagon “aerial phenomena” “The Office” reunion Taylor Swift’s “City of Lover” First post 1 week after 2 weeks after 2.5…
Let’s Clean Up the Toxic Internet
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] Sometimes the online cesspool makes me want to scream my head off.…
Virus Conspiracists Elevate a New Champion
In a video posted to YouTube on Monday, a woman animatedly described an unsubstantiated secret plot by global elites like Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci to use the coronavirus…
Trump’s Disinfectant Talk Trips Up Sites’ Vows Against Misinformation
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, said in March[1] that promoting bleach as a cure for the coronavirus[2] was “misinformation that has imminent risk of danger” and that…
