Twitter Slaps Warning Label on Latest Trump Tweet Spreading Misinformation About Voting Integrity and Drop Boxes
Tweet. Screenshot with warning:
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“Facebook removes page using image of LeBron James over ‘voter suppression tactics”
WaPo:
Facebook on Friday deleted a page using an image of LeBron James, among other deceptive tactics, to spread false and misleading claims about mail-in voting, a day after The Washington Post raised questions about the online operation.A… Continue reading
“Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results; The world’s biggest social network is working out what steps to take should President Trump use its platform to dispute the vote.”
NYT:
Facebook spent years preparing to ward off any tampering on its site ahead of November’s presidential election. Now the social network is getting ready in case President Trump interferes once the vote is over.Employees at the Silicon Valley company… Continue reading
“Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group”
WaPo:
A prominent Washington-based conservative advocacy organization is promoting a deceptive digital ad campaign that is stoking fears about mail-in voting and targeting battleground states with high concentrations of minority voters.FreedomWorks, the tax-exempt nonprofit that helped launchtea-partyprotests a decade ago… Continue reading
“No, Wisconsin mailbox picture isn’t proof of ‘massive voter suppression'”
“Chinese network of fake accounts targets Trump with English-language videos”
WaPo:
A network of fake Chinese accounts has been posting videos bashing President Trump, criticizing his recent closure of China’s consulate in Houston, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to ban the popular social media app TikTok,… Continue reading
“How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley”
Ben Smith NYT column:
But the referees who really matter nowadays are no longer the big media companies. The new referees are the Silicon Valley giants that control what we see when we search, browse or post online. But some… Continue reading
“Big Tech’s head-spinning rules for the 2020 election”
Donie O’Sullivan for CNN:
Late Wednesday, Twitter made waves by temporarily restricting a Trump campaign account’s ability to tweet because it shared a video containing false claims President Trump had made about the coronavirus. But Twitter took no action… Continue reading
“Trump campaign ad manipulates three images to put Biden in a ‘basement’”
WaPo:
The Pinocchio Test
Two of these photos fall under the category of “doctored” in the Fact Checker’s Guide to Manipulated Video. In the most egregious case, one image literally takes Biden from a nature preserve and puts him… Continue reading
“Facebook Employees Ask Zuckerberg What Would Happen If Trump Used Their Platform To Dispute Election Results”
Buzzfeed has posted this report, with the subhead: “Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation. And they’re worried about how the company will handle the president’s falsehoods in… Continue reading
“Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump”
NBC News:
Facebook removed hundreds of accounts on Thursday from a foreign troll farm posing as African-Americans in support of Donald Trump and QAnon supporters. It also removed thousands of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch… Continue reading
“State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links”
NYT:
Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in the United States and other parts of the West, according to a State Department report released on Wednesday.The report is one of the… Continue reading
“Instagram Displayed Negative Related Hashtags For Biden, But Hid Them For Trump”
Buzzfeed:
For at least the last two months, a key Instagram feature, which algorithmically pushes users toward supposedly related content, has been treating hashtags associated with President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in very different… Continue reading
“Facebook’s fact checkers have ruled claims in Trump ads are false — but no one is telling Facebook’s users”
WaPo:
Fact checkers were unanimous in their assessments when President Trump began claiming in June that Democrat Joe Biden wanted to “defund” police forces. Politifact called the allegations “false,” as did CheckYourFact. The Associated Press detailed “distortions” in Trump’s… Continue reading