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Diana Carolina, a pharmacist at Memorial Healthcare System, receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Memorial Healthcare System, on December 14, 2020 in Miramar, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Anti-vax...

Being a critical consumer of the news means understanding and identifying misinformation. NicolasMcComber/Getty Images Misinformation refers to false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact...

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, disaster avoidance expert, speaker and author.  Whenever you hear something repeated, it feels more true when you hear it repeated. In other words, repetition makes any statement...

Professional disinformation campaigns are a boom market, according to a new report from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII); researchers found “evidence of 81 countries using social media to spread computational...

In its latest effort to promote verified, true information, Google is supporting attempts to fight falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines. Its Google News Initiative will provide up to $3 million in grants to journalists...

Facebook has made progress on its policy towards anti-vaxxers over the past couple of years. From tolerating them, to factchecking, to increasingly removing content and taking them off the platform if they’re...

How the trailblazing broadcaster used a deepfake Queen Elizabeth to highlight society’s misinformation problemOne presumably knows that it is incredibly rare to see the Queen break into a basic smile, let alone a...

This week a violent mob mounted the biggest attack on the Capitol, the seat of American democracy, in more than 200 years, driven by the false belief that the presidential election had been stolen. The chief author of...

YouTube promised it would crack down on US election disinformation in early December, but it appear to have missed a large target. BuzzFeed News has learned that a network of YouTube channels linked to the far-right...

Despite active measures being implemented by Facebook and Instagram, anti-vaccination misinformation is being propagated with abandon on the platforms.The COVID-19 pandemic has overstayed its lack of a welcome for too...

OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Google banned the far-right social media app parler from its Play Store on Friday, citing "continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the...

Twitter took action against a pair of President Trump’s close associates Friday, banning them from the platform as part of a broader effort to contain the QAnon conspiracy movement. Trump’s first national security...

After a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday in a bid to obstruct the election certification, YouTube is rolling out more stringent procedures to punish channels that engage in election misinformation....

In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File Facebook attempted to...

During the storming of the US Capitol Building, keen-eyed broadcast viewers were surprised to see an Australian flag hoisted high by one rioter amid a sea of US flags and Trump banners. This flag, however, is not as out...

Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Facebook has blocked Trump from posting on the platform for 24 hours following two policy violations, the company said on...