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Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html

America Is Atomizing

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/style/america-is-atomizing.html

OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real - The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb expl... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #rumorsandmisinformation #artificialintelligence #mobileapplications #fraudsandswindling #openailabs

The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds - Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting d... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/ai-doctor-scams.html #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #impostors(criminal) #fraudsandswindling #dietandnutrition #metaplatformsinc #socialmedia #e-commerce

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy - Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html #internationalpanelontheinformationenvironment #right-wingextremismandalt-right #democracy(theoryandphilosophy) #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #artificialintelligence #internationalrelations #politicsandgovernment #x(formerlytwitter)

Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term - President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/business/trump-misinformation-false-claims.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #presidentialelectionof2024 #conservatism(uspolitics) #rumorsandmisinformation #rollinsbrooke(1972-) #kennedyrobertfjr #leavittkaroline #trumpdonaldj #foreignaid #muskelon #condoms

5 Reasons Early Voting Is Overwhelmed With Election Misinformation - Misleading anecdotes and rumors are spreading faster, and with more ferocity, than in the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/early-voting-election-misinformation.html #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #presidentialelectionof2024 #presidentialelectionof2020 #voterfraud(electionfraud) #rumorsandmisinformation #conspiracytheories #votingmachines #absenteevoting #socialmedia

Right-Wing Groups Are Organizing on Telegram Ahead of Election Day - Right-wing groups, which use Telegram to organize real-world actions, are urging follower... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/telegram-right-wing-groups-election.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #presidentialelectionof2024 #presidentialelectionof2020 #voterfraud(electionfraud) #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #instantmessaging

How the Kremlin Might Get Past RT Bans to Spread Its Message - Social media companies may try to ban RT, the Russian state media broadcaster. But the ne... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/russia-rt-social-media.html #rumorsandmisinformation #rtfrance(tvnetwork) #newsandnewsmedia #rt(tvnetwork) #socialmedia #facebookinc #whatsappinc #youtube.com

How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists - Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic sp... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/technology/telegram-crime-terrorism.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #corporatesocialresponsibility #durovpavelvaleryevich(1984-) #fringegroupsandmovements #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #israel-gazawar(2023-) #childabuseandneglect #drugabuseandtraffic #terrorism

How Pavel Durov, Telegram’s Founder, Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man - Pavel Durov’s anti-establishment streak helped him create one of the world’s biggest onli... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/technology/pavel-durov-telegram-founder.html #freedomofspeechandexpression #durovpavelvaleryevich(1984-) #contenttype:personalprofile #fringegroupsandmovements #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #artificialinsemination #politicsandgovernment

Telegram’s Top Executive Pavel Durov Reportedly Detained in France - The founder of Telegram, an app with more than 900 million users, was taken into custody ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/technology/pavel-durov-telegram-detained-france.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #freedomofspeechandexpression #durovpavelvaleryevich(1984-) #fringegroupsandmovements #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #childabuseandneglect #drugabuseandtraffic #mobileapplications #france

Donald Trump Was Shot. Then the Conspiracy Theories Spread. - Claims that President Biden and his allies ordered the attack on Donald J. Trump, or that... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/technology/trump-shooting-conspiracy-theories.html #assassinationsandattemptedassassinations #right-wingextremismandalt-right #crooksthomasmatthew(2003-24) #truthsocial(socialnetwork) #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #conspiracytheories #x(formerlytwitter)

TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated? - For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. T... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/tiktok-ban-bill-tech-law.html #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #politicsandgovernment #lobbyingandlobbyists #lawandlegislation #metaplatformsinc #zuckerbergmarke #amazon.cominc #socialmedia #alphabetinc

Jackson Hinkle Rides Rage Over Israel to Prominence - Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/jackson-hinkle-israel-gaza-misinformation.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #presidentialelectionof2024 #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #israel-gazawar(2023-) #x(formerlytwitter) #newsandnewsmedia #putinvladimirv #thedailywire #socialmedia #generationz #youtube.com

From Russia, Elaborate Tales of Fake Journalists - As the Ukraine war grinds on, the Kremlin has created increasingly complex fabrications o... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/business/media/russia-fake-journalists.html #russianinvasionofukraine(2022) #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #internationalrelations #politicsandgovernment #x(formerlytwitter) #zelenskyvolodymyr #newsandnewsmedia #socialmedia #youtube.com

Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46 - When the hashtag #EndFathersDay began trending on Twitter, she realized it was more than ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/shafiqah-hudson-dead.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #deaths(obituaries) #shafiqahhudson #womenandgirls #blackpeople #socialmedia #oregon #4chan

Meta Calls for Industry Effort to Label A.I.-Generated Content - The social network wants to promote standardized labels to help detect artificially creat... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/technology/meta-ai-standards-labels.html #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #artificialintelligence #metaplatformsinc #instagraminc #socialmedia #facebookinc #cleggnick

How A Rare Myocarditis Death Caught the Attention of the Anti-Vaccine Movement - A 24-year-old’s sudden death devastated his family — and caught the attention of the move... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/technology/covid-anti-vaccine.html #centersfordiseasecontrolandprevention #vaccinationandimmunization #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #childrensdefensefund #internal-great-read #deaths(fatalities) #conspiracytheories #autopsies

Are TikTok and X Amplifying Antisemitic Content? It’s Increasingly Hard to Know. - People who study social media say the conflict between Israel and Hamas has underscored t... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/israel-hamas-war-meta-tiktok-social-media.html #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #israel-gazawar(2023-) #anti-defamationleague #tiktok(bytedance) #metaplatformsinc #crowdtangleinc #anti-semitism #instagraminc #research

Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Delivers His Fringe Views: Not on the Trail - The Democratic presidential challenger continues to espouse extreme ideas, but has dialed... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/technology/rfk-jr-campaign-vaccines.html #vaccinationandimmunization #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #childrenshealthdefense #conspiracytheories #kennedyrobertfjr #research

As Covid-19 Cases Tick Higher, Conspiracy Theorists Stoke New Fears - A late-summer rise in Covid-19 infections is bringing with it a wave of conspiracy theori... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/technology/covid-19-uptick-conspiracy-theorists.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #vaccinationandimmunization #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #kaiserfamilyfoundation #conspiracytheories

Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits. - Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that d... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/business/missy-cummings-tesla-autopilot.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #automobilesafetyfeaturesanddefects #electricandhybridvehicles #trafficaccidentsandsafety #rumorsandmisinformation #speedlimitsandspeeding #deaths(fatalities) #roadsandtraffic

Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants - As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and mislead... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/disinformation-moderation-social-media.html #rumorsandmisinformation #layoffsandjobreductions #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #conspiracytheories #metaplatformsinc #anti-semitism #instagraminc #socialmedia #alphabetinc #youtube.com #hatespeech #censorship #cleggnick #muskelon #twitter

How War in Ukraine Roiled Facebook and Instagram - The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, cau... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/technology/ukraine-russia-facebook-instagram.html #russianinvasionofukraine(2022) #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #warandarmedconflicts #metaplatformsinc #zuckerbergmarke #instagraminc #facebookinc #socialmedia #propaganda #hatespeech #cleggnick #ukraine #russia

Founder of CrowdTangle Hopes to Bring Transparency to Social Media - The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/business/media/crowdtangle-facebook-brandon-silverman.html #silvermanbrandon(technologyexecutive) #regulationandderegulationofindustry #right-wingextremismandalt-right #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #lawandlegislation #coonschristophera #whistle-blowers #crowdtangleinc

No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image - Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Faceb... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-project-amplify.html #data-mininganddatabasemarketing #stormingoftheuscapitol(jan2021) #corporatesocialresponsibility #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #onlineadvertising #newyorkuniversity #zuckerbergmarke #sandbergsherylk #crowdtangleinc #socialmedia

How Eric Coomer Became the 'Perfect Villain' for Voting Conspiracists - Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted a... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/magazine/eric-coomer-dominion-election.html #presidentialelectionof2020 #voterfraud(electionfraud) #dominionvotingsystemscorp #rumorsandmisinformation #antifamovement(us) #giulianirudolphw #votingandvoters #foxnewschannel #trumpdonaldj #coomereric

Virus Misinformation Spikes as Delta Cases Surge - Researchers have recorded a new burst of false and misleading information about the coron... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/technology/covid-delta-misinformation-surge.html #vaccinationandimmunization #rumorsandmisinformation #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #crowdtangleinc #zignallabsinc #socialmedia #facebookinc

Facebook, Preparing for Chauvin Verdict, Will Limit Posts That Might Incite Violence - The company said it planned to limit posts that contain misinformation and hate speech re... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/technology/facebook-chauvin-verdict-violence.html #stormingoftheuscapitol(jan2021) #presidentialelectionof2020 #voterfraud(electionfraud) #georgefloydprotests(2020) #blacklivesmattermovement #rumorsandmisinformation #chauvinderek(1976-) #floydgeorge(d2020) #bickertmonika

How Three Election-Related Falsehoods Spread - The lies took off so rapidly on Facebook and Twitter that local election officials could not conta... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/technology/how-three-election-related-falsehoods-spread.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #georgefloydprotests(2020) #fringegroupsandmovements #blacklivesmattermovement #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #antifamovement(us) #absenteevoting #crowdtangleinc #socialmedia #facebookinc

Now Circulating on Social Media: 4 Election Falsehoods - The misinformation touches on ballot boxes, the “deep state,” and a conspiracy involving the coron... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/technology/four-election-related-falsehoods.html #coupsdetatandattemptedcoupsdetat #voterfraud(electionfraud) #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #antifamovement(us) #socialmedia #facebookinc

Former Parody Account Was Early in Spreading False Rumors on Fires - The rumors have overwhelmed local law enforcement agencies, leading them to plead with the public ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/technology/former-parody-account-was-early-in-spreading-false-rumors-on-fires.html #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #antifamovement(us) #socialmedia #wildfires

False Rumors That Activists Set Wildfires Exasperate Officials - Law enforcement agencies said claims on social media that antifascist activists had set fires on t... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/antifa-wildfires.html #rumorsandmisinformation #antifamovement(us) #socialmedia #oregon #arson

False Rumors That Activists Set Wildfires Exasperate Officials - Law enforcement agencies said claims on social media that antifascist activists had set fires on t... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/wildfires-misinformation-arson-activists.html #rumorsandmisinformation #antifamovement(us) #socialmedia #oregon #arson

What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’? - Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions abou... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/technology/what-if-facebook-is-the-real-silent-majority.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #republicannationalconvention #presidentialelectionof2020 #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #pollsandpublicopinion #newsandnewsmedia #bidenjosephrjr #crowdtangleinc #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia

41 Cities, Many Sources: How False Antifa Rumors Spread Locally - Claims about the involvement of anti-fascist activists in protests of racism shows the many ways f... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/technology/antifa-local-disinformation.html #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #greenemarjorietaylor(1974-) #georgefloydprotests(2020) #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #antifamovement(us) #newsandnewsmedia #socialmedia #facebookinc #youtube.com #twitter

‘All of It Is Toxic’: Misinformation About Protests Surges Online - In the universe of false online information, George Floyd remains alive and George Soros is to bla... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/george-floyd-misinformation-online.html #policebrutalitymisconductandshootings #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #georgefloydprotests(2020) #fringegroupsandmovements #rumorsandmisinformation #antifamovement(us) #floydgeorge(d2020) #socialmedia #facebookinc #youtube.com

Facebook Says It Will Ban ‘Deepfakes’ - The company said it would remove videos altered by artificial intelligence in ways meant to mislea... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/facebook-says-it-will-ban-deepfakes.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #presidentialelectionof2020 #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #bickertmonika #socialmedia #facebookinc