Twitter’s CEO Thinks Elon Musk Is Great at Twitter. These Messages Must Not Have Shown up in His Feed.
Elon Musk attends a Tesla factory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai on January 7.Xinhua/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that he likes “how @elonmusk uses Twitter,” during an interview conducted Tuesday on his company’s platform. Dorsey offered up Telsa CEO Elon Musk in response to a…
10 Years of Privacy Violations, Disinformation, and Friend Requests From Facebook
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other travails associated with abuses of the platform gradually…
How Facebook Screwed Us All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This essay is the cover story for our March/April issue. (Subscribe here!) Portions of it appeared earlier here and here. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous protests driven by viral memes. Violence and riots fueled by hateful fake-news posts, often about “terrorism” by marginalized…
How YouTube Helped Spread Dark Hoaxes About Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mother Jones video Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The State of the Union is usually guaranteed to be among the year’s highest-profile political broadcasts. This Tuesday, internet conspiracy theorists hijacked the audience watching livestreams of the broadcast to push hoax theories about the purported death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…
The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American public has continued to know little about Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to participating in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Not much has emerged about the confessed Russian agent’s political activities beyond her efforts to build ties with Republican leaders…
Facebook and Twitter Remove Thousands of Accounts Spreading Misinformation From Iran and Russia
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook and Twitter revealed Thursday that they had removed new misinformation campaigns from their platforms tied to Iran. Facebook said it deleted a batch of accounts for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” removing 783 pages, groups, and accounts with ties to Iran.…