Facebook Is Still Downplaying Its Role in the 2016 Election
Gabriel Sainhas/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immediately after the 2016 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the notion that fake news stories disseminated over his platform had influenced the outcome of the presidential race. Facing an outpouring of criticism about Facebook’s role in spreading disinformation, Zuckerberg and his…
Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That’s Helping Trump Divide America
Putin and Trump at a summit in Helsinki, July 2018Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked accounts tracked in real time on the Hamilton 68 dashboard dive into the hot Twitter topics of the moment. They have fanned rancor over the NFL’s #TakeAKnee…
How Bots Are Hijacking the Political Conversation Just Before the Election
Tweets featuring “MAGA” and “QAnon” are largely driven by automated behavior.Omar Marques/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump tweeted about a caravan of immigrants heading to the US border in late October, it set off a wildfire of misinformation on social media. Posts…
In 3 AM Tweet, Trump Claims, Without Evidence, CNN Is “Blaming” Him for Mail Bombs
Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a pre-dawn tweet early Friday morning, President Donald Trump slammed CNN for “blaming” him for the wave of explosive devices that were sent to prominent Democrats and the network’s New York studios this week. The president, who has regularly declared he doesn’t…
Trump’s “Enemy of the People” Rhetoric Is Endangering Journalists’ Lives
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since he campaigned for the White House, Donald Trump has attacked news outlets for negative reporting, singled out individual journalists for scorn, and turned his battle cry against “fake news”—a.k.a. reporting he dislikes—virtually into a personal brand.…
The Growing List of Hackings Ahead of the 2018 Midterm Elections
Sharifulin Valery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a startling announcement Tuesday, Microsoft revealed that the same Kremlin-backed military intelligence unit believed to have carried out the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee attempted last week to target the US Senate and conservative think tanks that have broken with…