One America News — the Trump-loving cable news network known for peddling conspiracy theories — probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for AT&T, according to a new report from Reuters. OAN founder Robert Herring said in a 2019 deposition that back in 2013, the telecom behemoth told him to create …
Read More »'They're Killing People,' Biden Slams Social Platforms That Allow Covid Misinformation
Social media platforms like Facebook “are killing people” by allowing Covid-19 misinformation to proliferate, President Biden said on Friday. A reporter asked the president if he had a message for social media companies about Covid misinformation. Biden replied, “They’re killing people. Look, the only pandemic we have is among the …
Read More »The Disinformation Vaccine: Is There a Cure for Conspiracy Theories?
Sander van der Linden was working in his office at the University of Cambridge a few years ago when he received a strange phone call. A professor of social psychology and director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory, van der Linden is one of the world’s leading researchers on how …
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