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  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    InterviewJames Murdoch
    James Murdoch blasts US media for unleashing ‘insidious forces’

    Comments from Rupert’s son are his strongest rebuke of industry practices since leaving the family business

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    John Thornhill
    Conspiracy theorists destroy a rational society: resist them

    We need to rebut propagandist falsehoods before they infect the real world

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Emily Bell
    Trump shows US needs a European approach to online regulation

    After deaths at the Capitol, social media must adopt a new model for preventing abuses of power

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Boom in private companies offering disinformation-for-hire

    Oxford researchers find contractors employed to manipulate opinion in 48 countries

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Media
    Rightwing media scrambles to shift tone in wake of US Capitol attack

    Conservative outlets reported baseless claims of mass voter fraud in presidential election

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Cécile Guerin
    France’s anti-vaxxers show deepening distrust of elites

    A mix of medical scandals and anti-establishment sentiment have fuelled high vaccine hesitancy

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    John Thornhill
    The tech platforms are not entirely to blame for Washington unrest

    Knee-jerk reactions in the wake of the storming of Capitol Hill could have unintended consequences

  • Saturday, 26 December, 2020
    ‘Rudderless’ QAnon may reinvent itself after US election, warn experts

    Trump’s defeat hits movement but influencers and politicians continue to fan conspiracy theory

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Facebook finds French and Russian trolls sparring in Africa

    More than 100 accounts with fewer than 7,000 followers were ‘linked to French military’, company says

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  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    UK on high alert for anti-vaccine disinformation from hostile states

    Army information warfare unit drafted in to help Whitehall officials as Covid vaccination is rolled out

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook vows to remove false claims about Covid-19 vaccines

    Social media platform’s policy change comes as UK prepares to roll out jab next week

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Social Media
    Twitter flags misleading post from Indian government official

    First time social platform has targeted a prominent member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Joseph Stiglitz
    Australia’s new tech code is a road worth exploring

    Effort to force Facebook and Google to share revenue with news sites is a novel way of dealing with a global problem

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Anjana Ahuja
    Health misinformation pollutes the web, with consequences for all

    Conspiracy theories about vaccines could affect how smoothly the world recovers from the coronavirus crisis

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Have journalists finally learnt how to challenge political lies?

    The profession needs much higher standards to prevent Trump-like figures broadcasting falsehoods

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Conspiracy and disinformation: America’s new politics

    False and misleading claims have proliferated across platforms at unprecedented levels

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Social Media
    Facebook and Twitter scramble to curb tide of election misinformation

    Experts say platforms’ efforts to label posts from Trump and others do not go far enough

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    How can Big Tech best tackle conspiracy theories?

    It’s about more than separating dangerous theories from less dangerous ones

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Michael Peel
    Fake news is as old as news itself

    From the 15th century on, governments and scientists have spread falsehoods too

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Biden campaign claims Facebook has mistakenly blocked adverts

    Complaint from Democratic challenger comes as social media group tries to halt misinformation

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    US official warns of election interference by Iran and Russia

    National intelligence director blames Tehran for emails seeking to intimidate voters

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    News in-depthByteDance
    TikTok battles to stay ‘apolitical’ ahead of US election

    ByteDance-owned short-video platform faces its first big content moderation test

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    Social Media
    Republicans in a Twitter rage over Hunter Biden story

    Social media once again finds itself at the centre of controversy over bias and disinformation

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    FT SeriesHall of Mirrors
    The “game theory” in the Qanon conspiracy theory

    The rabbit hole behind the rabbit hole is possibly a weaponised game.

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    YouTube cracks down on QAnon conspiracists

    Video platform follows Facebook and Twitter but stops short of full ban

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