As disinformation and misinformation have increasingly been blamed for rising political extremism and polarisation in the U.S., lawmakers have naturally sought to cobble together some sort of legislative response. The problem is that U.S. Congress is, themselves, so polarised that they can’t seem to agree on how to do that.
For years, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories found a welcome home on Facebook. The social network saw the issue as being about free speech and the anti-vaxxer groups it hosted as being about as dangerous as flat-Earthers. But now that getting accurate vaccine information to the public is a matter of existential…
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