How Facebook and Amazon Help Hate Groups Raise Money
Karla Ann Cote/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook and Amazon appear to be helping hate groups fundraise through philanthropy tools hosted on their platforms. Mother Jones found dozens of white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ organizations that appear to have access to Facebook’s Fundraiser tool, which lets users and organizations collect…
Facebook Announces a New Plan to Stop Vaccine Hoaxes
Omar Marques/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook announced new steps Thursday to reduce the spread of misinformation about vaccines, after measles outbreaks in several states prompted weeks of heightened criticism of the company for allowing massive anti-vaccination groups to proliferate on its platform. Massive anti-vaccination pages and…
Justice Department Loses Antitrust Appeal to AT&T-Time Warner Deal
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. AT&T emerged triumphant after the Justice Department lost its second court challenge to the company’s $85.4 billion merger with Time Warner, a blockbuster deal that has the potential to shake up much of the media industry. The deal, and the DOJ’s long,…
Right-Wing Troll Jacob Wohl Banned From Twitter
John Middlebrook/CSM/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Right-wing Twitter provocateur Jacob Wohl was suspended from the social-media platform on Tuesday after he boasted about plans to manipulate online political discussion in a high-profile newspaper interview. Twitter said he had violated several of the company’s rules, including creating and operating…
Measles Outbreaks Are Increasing. Experts Think It’s Because of Anti-Vaxxers on Facebook.
David Cheskin/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Medical experts warn that the internet could be making more of us sick, pointing to research highlighting how online platforms’ role in boosting vaccination opponents and their baseless theories is fueling infectious disease outbreaks across the world. “Incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases can be…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Who is Not In a Coma, Returns to Supreme Court
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her return to the Supreme Court for oral arguments on Monday for the first time since announcing she underwent surgery in December for cancer. Her public appearance comes after false conspiracy theories about her health…