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Facebook announces plans to remove vaccine misinformation content

Tuesday, February 9 by ABC News

By IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Facebook announced Monday it will be taking stricter measures to crack down on misinformation about vaccines and said it will be doing more to help users find resources on getting their shot.Kang-Xing Jin,... Read More.

Normalization of vaccine misinformation on social media amid COVID ‘a huge problem’

Thursday, December 10 by ABC News

By CATHERINE SANZ, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Social media posts containing vaccine misinformation not only have increased since the pandemic began, they're more likely to coexist alongside less extreme content, effectively normalizing them and possibly delaying wider acceptance of a... Read More.

Election Day 2020 live updates: FBI investigates voting misinformation robocalls

Tuesday, November 3 by ABC News

By LAUREN KING, MICHELLE STODDART, CATHERINE THORBECKE and MORGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Election Day is finally here.In the weeks leading up to Tuesday, at least 99.6 million early votes were cast. Nationally, voters have cast 72.3% of the... Read More.

Authorities ramp up fight against misinformation and voter suppression

Thursday, October 29 by ABC News

By LAURA ROMERO and MATTHEW MOSK, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- When Ohio authorities indicted two men this week accused of trying to deceive and threaten voters with more than 85,000 misleading robocalls to residents of Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and... Read More.

Florida’s Latino voters being bombarded with right-wing misinformation, experts and advocates say

Tuesday, October 20 by ABC News

By LAURA ROMERO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Misinformation and conspiracy theories swirling around the 2020 presidential race are reaching an "alarming" number of Latino voters in Florida through Spanish language social media sites, advocacy groups and elected officials said.

What social media giants are doing to counter misinformation this election

Sunday, October 18 by ABC News

BY: CATHERINE SANZ and CATHERINE THORBECKE(WASHINGTON) -- In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, some of the most popular social media platforms have introduced new measures to curb misinformation, increase transparency and try to bolster the integrity of the... Read More.

Twitter unveils new efforts to stem election misinformation

Friday, October 9 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Twitter unveiled a slew of updates -- including efforts to slow retweets with misleading information from going viral -- in an attempt to curb the spread of misinformation on the platform ahead of... Read More.

Younger people more likely to believe COVID-19 misinformation, Harvard survey finds

Wednesday, September 23 by ABC News

By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Younger people are more likely to believe false claims related to the novel coronavirus than older people, according to a new survey released Tuesday by a team of researchers at Harvard University, Rutgers University, Northeastern... Read More.

The fight to combat election misinformation blurs partisan lines

Friday, September 11 by ABC News

By KENDALL KARSON and ADIA ROBINSON, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The country's war with election misinformation is blurring partisan lines, as state officials from both sides of the aisle are working in conjunction to fend off efforts to suppress votes --... Read More.

Facebook to ban new political ads before Election Day to ‘fight misinformation’

Thursday, September 3 by ABC News

By WILLIAM MANSELL, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Facebook is banning all new political advertisements a week before the general election with the hopes of limiting misinformation on its platform, the company announced Thursday."The US elections are just two... Read More.

Individuals linked to 2016 Russian misinformation effort back at it again with more fake accounts, Facebook says

Tuesday, September 1 by ABC News

By OLIVIA RUBIN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Some individuals connected to the online Russian troll group that attempted to interfere in the 2016 president election on social media are at it again, Facebook announced in a report on Tuesday.The... Read More.

Twitter temporarily limits Donald Trump Jr.’s account for COVID-19 misinformation

Tuesday, July 28 by ABC News

By BEN GITTLESON and WILL STEAKIN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Twitter has temporarily limited the account belonging to Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump's eldest child, for 12 hours after he posted content that violated the... Read More.

Stories tagged with: misinformation

Facebook announces plans to remove vaccine misinformation content

Election Day 2020 live updates: FBI investigates voting misinformation robocalls

Authorities ramp up fight against misinformation and voter suppression

Florida’s Latino voters being bombarded with right-wing misinformation, experts and advocates say

Twitter unveils new efforts to stem election misinformation

Younger people more likely to believe COVID-19 misinformation, Harvard survey finds

The fight to combat election misinformation blurs partisan lines

Facebook to ban new political ads before Election Day to ‘fight misinformation’

Individuals linked to 2016 Russian misinformation effort back at it again with more fake accounts, Facebook says

Twitter temporarily limits Donald Trump Jr.’s account for COVID-19 misinformation

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