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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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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.

Russian news outlets with connections to the Kremlin ran disingenuous Spanish-language stories targeting vaccines made in the United States and Europe, researchers said.

John Matze, who led the social media platform that was popular with conservatives, said he recently disagreed with one of the site’s backers, Rebekah Mercer.

Telegram and Signal, the encrypted services that keep conversations confidential, are increasingly popular. Our tech columnists discuss whether this could get ugly.

Lawmakers say the attack on the Capitol has generated more support for tougher regulation of the industry.

Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken — but not in the way his supporters think.

Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trump’s staunchest fans, are calling him “weak” as more of them were charged for storming the U.S. Capitol.

Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president’s account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.

The company faced a backlash from users who worried the changes made the messaging service less secure.

Facebook and Twitter have kicked out the online horribles. Are they going where we can’t find them?

YouTube is the latest tech company to bar the president from posting online, after Twitter, Facebook and others.

The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.