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‘ENDLESS MAYFLY’
They managed to trick Twitter into giving them a verified account. And then the trolls used it to push horrifically racist disinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine.
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ACCESS DENIED
“I don’t think that Facebook should be [an] arbiter of truth,” Mark Zuckerberg said in May. But every rule has its exceptions.
UNFRIEND
Mark Zuckerberg’s giant social network has aggressively fought for the president’s right to deceive its customers. But a misleading video about children and COVID-19 was too much.
ANTITRUST HEARING
A House hearing about antitrust quickly became a referendum for House Republicans on whether content moderation policies are biased against conservatives.
‘VERY IMPRESSIVE’
“I guess Twitter took them off and I think Facebook took them off. I don't know why, I think they're very respected doctors.”
NOT THIS TIME
“There’s no doubt that Putin’s network of lackeys are trying to feed information to friendly voices in Congress,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT).
FIRE IN THE HOLE
A shady group of trolls are masquerading as the potential VP pick to launch a racist conspiracy theory about a fire onboard a U.S. Navy ship.
RETURN OF THE COZY BEAR
One British official told The Daily Beast that the U.S., U.K., and Canada were sending a warning signal to the hackers on Thursday.
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DOES NOT EXIST
Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda.
THE LONG WAR
Russia has been courting the Taliban at least since 2014 with money and weapons, ostensibly to fight ISIS, certainly to undermine the American effort in Afghanistan.
