New Colorado Bill Would Create Commission to Restrict "Hate Speech," "Fake News," "Conspiracy Theories" on Social Media Platforms
The bill was introduced by Colorado Senate president pro tem Kerry Donovan (who is also running for Congress).
The bill was introduced by Colorado Senate president pro tem Kerry Donovan (who is also running for Congress).
Government will happily suppress misinformation in favor of misinformation of its own.
The Washington Supreme Court overrules a trial court's order requiring the removal of one such statement; but what should the general rule on this be?
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What happens when a prank or spoof sparks a real belief?
This preposterous claim is front and center in a new PragerU video.
After failing to frame Robert Mueller, Elizabeth Warren, and others for sexual misconduct, the infamous Trumpster hoaxers tried to go after Fauci. But the woman they hired to play the victim had second thoughts.
Calls to U.S. poison control centers are up. They have been since March.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
No, Californians aren't banned from showering and doing laundry on the same day. But the fact that so many people believed that lie says something about how insane the state's real water laws are.
Singapore ordered Facebook to attach a "false information" message to a news story written by a government critic.
The video Abbott shared was not of a homeless person—it was a mentally ill person having a serious episode. Whoops.
Deepfakes don't pose a novel threat, and they have many exciting applications that would be stymied by legal restrictions.
Friday A/V Club: A prank from the final days of the Soviet Union
Most "news" is just press releases and breathless exaggerations of isolated problems.
The viral clip was misleadingly edited, and stripped of important context
Countries across the world tackle political misinformation with authoritarian censorship.
It may be time to hire a libel service.
Researchers made no effort to link the two.
The supposed plague of misleading and harmful information on the internet is nothing new, nor is governments' desire to muzzle anybody who says inconvenient things.
Right after 290 people were killed in a series of Easter Sunday bombings
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Episode 3 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Covering stories is too important to abandon for brazen partisan pandering-or wishful thinking.
They're just helping the TSA push its scaremongering narrative.
Fake news is real. Momo is not.
Government statistics often show more reports of both. That doesn't mean either is on the rise.
Canadian columnist Andrew Coyne explains why efforts to combat fake news by cutting off supply are barking up the wrong tree.
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It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
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The host of TruTV's hit show has lost some faith in the power of rational discourse. And he has some ideas for how to fix the problem.
Hundreds of pages and accounts have been purged over accusations that they were "inauthentic." The page operators disagree.
Friday A/V Club: Long before "fake news" was a cliché, Alan Abel was both inserting and exposing fakery in the news.
Clinton runs with a Kamala Harris whopper that's already been debunked.
Threatened regulations on "fake news" would be an attack on press freedom
Should we be concerned about a new system to keep track of real vs. fake news?