US Voters Startled by Fake ‘Proud Boys’ Emails Blamed on Iran
What the FBI and national intelligence officials described as fake “Proud Boys” emails targeting voters in Florida and several other...
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Facebook to Halt New Political Ads Week Before US Election
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. presidential election in Novembe...
Facebook, Twitter Suspend Russian Network Ahead of Election
Facebook said Tuesday that it removed a small network of accounts and pages linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency, the "t...
African Americans Alert to Social Media Disinformation
A study by the Nielsen ratings service says African Americans are among the nation's top consumers of social media especially a...
Facebook to Allow Paid Political Messages That Aren’t Ads
Facebook decided Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network's rules gover...
Facebook Again Declines to Limit Political Ad Targeting
Facebook has decided not to limit how political ads can be targeted to specific groups of people, as its main digital-ad rival Googl...
Bolton: Twitter ‘Liberated’ His Account from White House
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said Friday that Twitter Inc. had returned control of his...
Study: Social Media a Double-Edged Sword for Female Politicians
On Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's Facebook page, you can find videos ranging from an announcement in Des...
Group Says Misinformation on the Rise on Facebook
An advocacy group tracking misinformation says it has found an increase in fake political news shared on Facebook ahead of the 2020...
Going Its Own Way: Twitter Bans Political Ads from Its Service
In a major break from other internet companies, Twitter said on Wednesday it would no longer accept political ads, a decision that w...
Buttigieg Calls Facebook’s Political Ad Policy a ‘Mistake’
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says Facebook's policy to not filter out phony political ads is “a mistake” an...
