Does Banning the Taliban From Social Media Actually Help Afghans?
A Taliban fighter searches for a network signal for his mobile phone at a hospital in the Andar district of Ghazni province.Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When earlier this month the Taliban overtook Kabul, gaining control of Afghanistan, accounts on…
Facebook Doesn’t Want to Talk About Fake Users Created by the Pentagon
Drew Angerer/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On a press call a few years ago, I asked Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, if the company would treat a misinformation campaign orchestrated by the US…
Twitter Just Suspended QAnon-Boosting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Erin Scott/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Twitter has temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), after the newly sworn-in member of Congress repeatedly posted allegations of election fraud on Sunday morning. Greene’s…
Deplatforming Trump Is Already Having a Huge Impact
Jeff Swensen/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.It’s been nine days of relative calm since Twitter cut off a major spigot of election misinformation from President Donald Trump’s account—setting off a chain of suspensions across Facebook,…
Why Do Conservatives Keep Posting Pictures of Awful Food?
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Christmas Eve, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) posted a picture of some awful-looking meat slathered with an ambiguous, thick red sauce that looked as if…
Another Day, Another Trump Tweetstorm
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Clearly, our president is having a Normal One. Today, he unleashed a tweetstorm in which he dunked on the very lukewarm “October surprise” of Hunter Biden’s laptop, made fun of the 79-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci for…