The new rise of conservatism

Post titled “Astonishing fraud! Evil Pfffizer! Fake vaccines!” found on the Dark Web.

The raid would have still happened without Parler, says Media Matters CEO Angelo Carusone, but not without Facebook.

U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether a bitcoin transfer to right-wing organizations and personalities was linked to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

While he was working at Citi, Jason Gelinas took QAnon mainstream, delivering its theories to a wider audience of soccer mums, white-collar workers and other 'normies'.

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the...

Deciphering the most beloved, most reviled children’s-book author in history.

A departing Facebook employee said the social network's failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”

As the pandemic has taken a grip, so have the misinformation spreaders. Here are five ways to spot the holes in their logic

Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.

We conducted a mixed-method, interpretative analysis of an online, cross-platform disinformation campaign targeting the White Helmets, a rescue group operating in rebel-held areas of Syria that have become the subject of a persistent effort of delegitimization. This research helps to conceptualize what a disinformation campaign is and how it works. Based on what we learned

Country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from school pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information

The bizarre, pro-Trump cult known as QAnon has been gaining followers in the United States for months. Now, the conspiracy theory has begun spreading to Germany. It's followers believe that the coronavirus is a weapon of the elite in their quest to enslave the world.

Playing with reality

Immigration barely figures in debate ahead of Sunday’s election

BTS stans built the trolling blueprint for 4chan types, and they’ve proven they can disrupt it.

I own a painting of a black swan by the artist Selene Perez of Creativity Explored, which I love because it’s a powerful painting of a bird that looks crowded by the paper it’s on—it looks as thoug…

He’s one of Facebook’s most far-reaching celebrities. He’s also full of shit.

The study goes against basically all scientific evidence and expert opinion. But it fits with the former Trump adviser’s anti-China posture.

The far-right fringe group infamous for promoting nutjob conspiracy theories about pedophile rings has moved on to criminally meddling in child custody cases.

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

It’s not often that a paper attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what University of New Hampshire assistant philosophy professor Subrena Smith’s paper tried to do. “Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible?” describes a major issue with evolutionary psychology, called the matching problem.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus have exploded. But conspiracy theories themselves are nothing new - in fact, they're fundamental to American life. In this episode, how conspiracy theories helped to create the U.S. and became the currency of political opportunists.

The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.

This blogpost is a work of over a week’s worth of full-time research using publicly available sources of information. I’m not associated with the CIA and my sources are limited to Google, news media and leaks. That said, even with a limited number of sources, there is too much information on the topic and it’s impossible to include all of it without making the blogpost impossibly long. I tried to condense the material as much as I could and provide as many references as I could, so that you could all examine the information I used to draw conclusions, if you would like to. Many of the sources I list are in Russian, but you should still be able to examine most of them with Google’s page translation. Please report any broken links and I’ll do my best to fix them. Overall, the blogpost describes how Russia’s disinformation and bot infrastructure came to be. Due to its nature, we may lack crucial information that will come out in later years and if it does, I’ll correct my article. The blogpost isn’t intended to instill some kind of hate against Russians, in fact, if you read through it, you’ll realize that Russian citizens are oppressed and put down by Kremlin’s propaganda infrastructure in a way that people in the West will never be. If you have any feedback, I’ll be happy to hear it out.

David Robert Grimes: Whether the issue is climate change, healthcare or gun control, libertarians are on a permanent collision course with evidence

While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in “pseudoscience”

When the gurus on your block outnumber the tradespeople or teachers or artists, surely that’s a sign that the world has lost its footing. Because even as the guru seduces you with his wicked poetry…

In times of crisis, a combination of heightened emotions and lack of information combine to create the one thing nearly every conspiracy needs: fearful minds.

An analysis of social networks reveals how Kremlin-backed media outlets boosted xenophobic discourse