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'This Is a Flashing Red Light': Trump Triggers Alarm With Another Baseless Attack on Mail-In Voting

An employee at the Utah County Election office puts mail-in ballots into a container to register the vote in the midterm elections on November 6, 2018 in Provo, Utah. (Photo: George Frey/Getty Images)

Employees Hold Virtual Walkout to Protest Facebook Inaction on Trump Posts 'Advocating Violence Against Black Demonstrators'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to an audience in 2018.

"I am calling for Mark to immediately take down the president's post advocating violence, murder, and imminent threat against black people."

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Trump Social Media Executive Order Denounced as Unlawful Ploy to 'Eviscerate Public Oversight of His Lies'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Undoubtedly the first step down an increasingly dark path of Trump using the...

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'String of Intentional Outright Lies': Bloomberg Campaign Deletes Tweets Containing Fake Quotes of Sanders Praising Despotism

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Mike Bloomberg has been publishing videos attacking Bernie Sanders and Bernie...

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Study Suggests Twitter Bots Have 'Substantial Impact' on Spreading Climate Misinformation

President Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters as he prepared to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

"You're Not a Dictator": Lawmakers and Experts Inform Trump He Can't Declare War via Tweet

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While New Twitter Policy Will Ban Green Groups' Climate Ads, Looks Like ExxonMobil Can Still Pay to Promote Its Propaganda

Twitter's decision on Wednesday to ban political advertising was met with cautious praise.

'Whoa': Twitter to End Paid Political Advertising on Platform, CEO Says

Women Leaders Call On Candidates to Address the #MeTooVoter Ahead of Democratic Debate

$Flares burning off gas at Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site which is the fourth largest oil field in California.$

Fossil Fuel Firms Spend Millions on Social Media Ads Against Climate Regulations While Portraying Selves as Green Heroes

Blasting Laura Ingraham as 'Neo-Nazi Fan Favorite,' Ocasio-Cortez Says Twitter Users Entitled to Vile Opinions But Not Abuse

'Your Life Will End': As GOP's Islamophobic Attacks Continue, Rep. Ilhan Omar Shares Terrifying Reality of Death Threats

Instead of Correcting Lies, Corporate Media Use Twitter to Passively Amplify Misinformation From Trump, Study Shows

To Save US Journalism, 'Ambitious' Proposal Urges Tax on Tech Giants That Helped Destroy News Industry

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'Operation Divide the Left': Analysis Shows 2020 Online Disinformation Campaign Already Well Underway

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Free Press

Trump’s Executive Order Is a Blatant and Unconstitutional Attempt to Silence Critics and Fact Checkers

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows

Amnesty International

Crowdsourced Twitter Study Reveals Shocking Scale of Online Abuse Against Women

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Erwin Chemerinsky

Trump's Authoritarian Executive Order Is an Assault on Free Speech—Not a Defense of It

Michael Winship

In the Face of Death and Disease, Who's Sorry Now? Not Donald Trump—Yet

Robert Reich

Should Facebook and Twitter Stop Trump’s Lies?

Jessica J. González

A New Year's Resolution for Big Tech: Step Up to Stop Hate

Juan Cole

Back to Jim Crow Under Trump: 'Lynch Her' Is Republicans' Big Idea to Deal With Rep. Ilhan Omar

Robert Reich

Massive Power, Dangerous Lies, and Why Corporations Like Facebook Must Be Broken Up

Tom Gallagher

A Modest Goal: #usoutofafghanistan

Scott Goodstein

Democratic Candidates Must Communicate Differently to Impress a New Generation of Voters

Krystal Ball

AOC Is the Trump-Era Hero We Need

Rachel Levinson-Waldman

How ICE and Other DHS Agencies Mine Social Media in the Name of National Security