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Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system — unless you have a credit card, in which case they’re happy to…

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Republican lawmakers pounding the well-worn TikTok ban drum are using flaming hot tensions over the conflict in Israel to try, once again, to knock the app offline. The new line of attacks, based on shoddy data analyses, claims TikTok is boosting anti-Israel content in order to brainwash a generation of gullible…

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X creators whose posts were amended or corrected in Community Notes are no longer eligible to receive ad revenue share, owner Elon Musk said on Sunday.

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Experts say there has been an unprecedented number of fake claims about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online. Bellingcat's open-source investigators showed us how they find out the truth.

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An unorthodox group of 7 users is now the most dominant news source for information about the Israel-Hamas war on X (formerly Twitter), according to a new report from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Dubbed the “New Elites” of X, the report found these users racked up 1.6 billion views on…

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YouTube introduced a dedicated news-watching experience to help viewers across 40 countries find the latest stories from reputable sources, the company announced on Wednesday. The aim is to make reliable news more readily accessible with two added features including a watch page and a “Shorts Innovation Program.”

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Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Elon Musk (right).
Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Elon Musk (right).