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A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.

The conspiracy stems from a Fox Business appearance last Friday by a lawyer making claims about the election results.

Halloween decorations, Harry Styles and a QAnon-adjacent missing children story broke up a wall of pre-election political news.

Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire.

Hunter Biden, a “Two and a Half Men” star’s death and Amy Coney Barrett’s empty notepad carried the week on social media.

Kevin Roose, a Times tech columnist, has watched the baseless conspiracy theory grow from fringe internet subculture to mass movement, carefully calibrating his coverage along the way.

Misleading information about voting by mail is the biggest category of election falsehoods — and it includes many flavors.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg obituaries, reports of missing children and stories from a right-wing satire site made up the week’s most highly engaged stories on social media.

An investigation found that a former Fox News executive hired Macedonians to write culturally and politically divisive content for his websites.

The company also announced several new initiatives to reduce the spread of false information, including an effort to clearly label inaccurate posts.

The social network says it has struggled to get the information to researchers because it also wants to protect its users’ privacy.