Center for Countering Digital Hate: Substack makes at least $2.5M/year via anti-vaccine posts; Substack defends hosting “writers with whom we strongly disagree”
Newsletter company Substack is making millions off anti-vaccine content, according to estimates Tweets: @lulumeservey , @neontaster , @alexhern , @chelseaclinton , @ggreenwald , @p...
Report: militias like the Three Percenters are key spreaders of vaccine misinfo on Facebook, and some of their Facebook Group admins get a “Group Expert” badge
Violent militia groups have become “key” spreaders of vaccine misinformation on Facebook, and now those groups … Source: Tech Transparency Project .
Facebook says their data shows a 50% decline in vaccine hesitancy among US users, refuting Biden's claim that it's “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinfo
At a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in America, the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.
Biden says platforms like Facebook are “killing people” with the way they are handling COVID-19 vaccine misinfo, as White House calls on Facebook to do more
- President Joe Biden on Friday said platforms like Facebook are killing people by allowing Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on their services.
Facebook says it won't be “distracted by accusations which aren't supported by the facts” in response to Biden's comment that social media is “killing people”
Facebook fired back on Friday evening after President Biden earlier said that social media platforms are …
Facebook says Instagram has removed Robert F Kennedy Jr's account for making false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines
Instagram took down the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over positing false information on #COVID19. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coro...
Facebook says Instagram has removed Robert F Kennedy Jr's account for making false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines
Move comes as the company is expanding efforts to crack down on conspiracy theory content — Instagram removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account on Wednesday …
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @...
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
As false claims declaring that Joe Biden isn't the president-elect flourish on his platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees …
Facebook and YouTube removed a video where Trump claims kids are “virtually immune” to COVID-19; Twitter banned @teamtrump's account until it removed the video
Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to U.S. President Donald Trump for violating …
Facebook says it has removed ads from Trump's 2020 campaign that featured Nazi iconography; the campaign ran 88 ads with the inverted red triangle symbol
Update (6/18/20, 1:15 p.m. EDT): Facebook has removed the ads in question following this post and public backlash.
Conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines dominate Instagram's search results, and are made more visible by the app's recommendation algorithms
Karissa Bell / Engadget : Tweets: @harrymccracken , @mattk , @sachabaroncohen , @alfiekohn , @chelseaclinton , and @sykescharlie . Thanks: @jpmanga Tweets: Harry McCracken / @harr...
Conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines dominate Instagram's search results, and are made more visible by the app's recommendation algorithms
Instagram's efforts to curb health misinformation have done little to stem the flow of conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines. Tweets: @sachabaroncohen , @alfiekohn ...
Members of the anti-vaccine community are experienced at exploiting weaknesses of social media platforms and are primed to sow doubts about a COVID-19 vaccine
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
After banning ads for medical face masks over a week ago, ads served by Google for masks have shown alongside COVID-19 news on sites like CNN, NYT, CNBC, WaPo
New York (CNN Business)Some of the country's biggest news organizations are showing ads for face masks on their websites. Tweets: @slpng_giants , @chelseaclinton , @tonyromm , @hsh...