Disinformation

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Russia has “troll farms” dedicated to spreading disinformation and propaganda on social media, says Emerson T. Brooking of the Atlantic Council. Brooking explains how Russia invested heavily in online campaigns and is now using the web to influence opinions about the invasion of Ukraine.

The National Butterfly Center made headlines when it fought against the plans for a border fence while Donald Trump was president. The barrier near the U.S.-Mexico border would have divided the center’s land and required clearing out parts of it. Now, the center is closed indefinitely after staff and the board faced violent threats fueled by right-wing disinformation. “These lies...

Law enforcement accused Iran of orchestrating an email campaign aimed at intimidating Democratic voters in battleground states so they would vote for then-President Donald Trump.

Companies are leaving disinformation or not flagging it on social media platforms after removing or warning identical posts in English, Democratic legislators and others said.

In a White House briefing on Thursday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy shared his new advisory on the dangers of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Election Week 2020 will be unlike any other in history, with more votes, more emotion – and more misinformation than ever. It’s that intentionally-deceptive information, designed to manipulate us, that threatens our democracy. And as NBCLX’s Noah Pransky explains, it’s up to all of us to help stop it from spreading.

Two of Facebook’s toughest critics on Capitol Hill have urged the social media platform to get serious about misinformation, voter suppression and hate speech ahead of the 2020 election.

The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories and misinformation, most recently around the coronavirus.

The U.S. government has identified two suspected Russian military intelligence operatives who it believes are helping direct the spread of disinformation through websites that have published extensively on the coronavirus pandemic, American politics and international affairs.

People are trying to cause chaos in the U.S. by spreading disinformation. Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins from NBC News have some tips on how to spot it and fight it.

Facebook has started labeling some content as coming from foreign state-controlled media outlets, the company announced Thursday. Pages of overtly state-run news agencies such as Russia’s RT and Sputnik, and China’s Xinhua News and the People’s Daily, will be labeled as such, a Facebook representative said. At least 18 news outlets’ pages, with hundreds of millions of followers, will receive...

Twitter announced Monday it will warn users with a label when a tweet contains disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus

A video from a discredited scientist promoting a hodgepodge of coronavirus conspiracy theories was viewed by millions of social media users on Thursday, NBC News reported.

FBI Director Chris Wray says Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election