Department of Homeland Security
While the Department of Homeland Security pressured tech companies to censor their users' posts, it also branded election deniers as potential terrorists.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI regularly report misinformation and disinformation to tech companies for potential removal.
Regular people are not so terminally online.
Amidst official hysteria over “misinformation,” the president continues to willfully misrepresent the facts on firearms.
A new Cato report sheds light on "jawboning," or attempts by state actors "to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech."
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People believe and say things that aren't true all of the time, of course. But efforts by public officials to combat them may well make things worse, not better.
And The Washington Post's wildly one-sided account of Jankowicz's fall was an exercise in government PR.
A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.
Plus: ruminations on public health, misinformation, and media literacy
This “unprecedented crisis for democracy” is neither unprecedented nor a crisis for democracy.
Plus: perpetual "scope creep" of the welfare state
The board's head says she is dedicated to "protecting free speech," but she has also expressed direct opposition to "free speech absolutists."
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
Government will happily suppress misinformation in favor of misinformation of its own.
Aaron Reynolds is just trying to make people laugh, but his content may have been flagged on Instagram for interfering with the election.
Aaron Reynolds, the creator of "Swear Trek" and "Effin' Birds," talks about living and dying by Instagram's algorithms.
Plus: Republicans denounce Trump fraud allegations, Trump campaign mounts multiple legal challenges, and more...
The House Intelligence Committee is mulling ways to stop an "infodemic." Is this really a task we want the government to tackle?
How a scary name for an arbitrary group of firearms distorts the gun control debate
Vladimir Putin's Foreign Ministry
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Politicians have an enormous incentive to "strategically spread false information" otherwise known as "lie."
