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  • Meta Discovers Its Biggest Misinfo Campaign Yet

    Meta Discovers Its Biggest Misinfo Campaign Yet

    Meta says it has identified and removed more than 7,700 shady accounts and 990 pages on Facebook linked to Chinese law enforcement in what the company is calling the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.” The accounts, which tended to boost positive commentary about Chinese policies and negative posts about the US,…


  • 7 Trends in Online Extremism to Look Out for in 2022

    7 Trends in Online Extremism to Look Out for in 2022

    It’s now been well over a year since a horde of pro-Donald Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, trying and failing to return the former president to office. Slowly but surely, the nation has settled into a new normal. So too have the perpetrators’ ideological allies, ranging from the street-brawling Proud Boys to QAnon conspiracy…


  • Well Well Well, Look Who Chickened Out During Daddy’s Failed Coup

    Well Well Well, Look Who Chickened Out During Daddy’s Failed Coup

    Today in utter lack of surprises: The House committee investigating the Donald Trump-incited riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 dug up texts showing Fox News stars and at least one of Trump’s interminable sons sent panicked texts urging Trump to call the whole thing off — then promptly went back to pretending Trump did…