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The company tried to punt its Trump dilemma to a panel of experts. On Wednesday, the experts punted back.

You can’t experience effects from being near someone who is vaccinated, because it is biologically impossible for the vaccine material to be transmitted from person to person.

Comedian Sarah Silverman and The Times’s Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Davey Alba explore how disinformation spreads, and how we can fight back.

Barred from Twitter and Facebook as Trump was, social media’s younger conspiracy theorists are moving to Twitch.

QAnon adherents and other far-right influencers are making thousands of dollars broadcasting election and vaccine conspiracy theories on the streaming site.

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Continue reading the main storyDemocrats are breathing easier. Republicans are crying censorship. For all of the country’s news consumers, a strange quiet has descended after a four-year bombardment of presidential verbiage.April 17, 2021Updated 1:30 p.m. ETThat soothing sound that Gary Cavalli hears emanating from ...

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Continue reading the main storyTwitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey testifying before Congress in October.Credit...Pool photo by Greg NashMarch 25, 2021Updated 12:03 p.m. ETThe chief executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter are testifying at the House on Thursday about how disinformation spreads across their plat...

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Matt Bors, a left-leaning cartoonist who runs a site called The Nib, gets most of his traffic from Facebook and Instagram. Credit...Norman Wong for The New York TimesMatt Bors, a left-leaning cartoonist who runs a site called The Nib, gets most of his traffic from Facebook and Instagram. Credit...Norman Wong for The...

Three teenagers in a Bucks County cheerleading program were subjected to a campaign of harassment using altered videos and spoof phone numbers, police officials said.

A tool that allows old photographs to be animated, and viral videos of a Tom Cruise impersonation, shined new light on digital impersonations.

The company’s ties to more than a dozen sites illustrate how conservative media companies are branching out after Facebook and Twitter began stiffer policing of false information.

The social network had prohibited political ads on its site indefinitely after the November election. Such ads have been criticized for spreading misinformation.

The move, which applies to anti-vaccine posts unrelated to Covid as well, targets unpaid posts to the site and particularly Facebook pages and groups.