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Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies

Twitter will ban users who spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and covid-19 vaccines under a new five-strike system, according to a new blog post from the social media company. Twitter bans all medical information that’s “demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm.” “Through the use of the strike system,…

Health Matt Novak Mar 2

QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind

“I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up on a pillow, pleading, like…

Politics Whitney Kimball Mar 1

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Nashville Bombing Suspect Was Anti-Government Extremist, Believed in Lizard People: Report

In the early hours of Christmas Day in 2020, an RV in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, began broadcasting the sounds of gunfire and warnings for anyone in earshot to immediately evacuate. After about 15 minutes, it exploded, killing the perpetrator, wounding at least eight others, and damaging hundreds of buildings. A New York Times article on…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 24

Your Travel Guide to the Rudderless Right-Wing Web After Trump

Moving into 2021 and forward, conservatives angry about “cancel culture,” censorship, shadowbans, or the attention of the FBI have a rich array of social destinations to choose from. We’ve prepped a travel guide for the unwitting observer who might be thinking of checking any of these conspicuous and lesser-known internet hellholes out—whether it’s to keep…

Politics Tom McKay Feb 24

TikTok Users Are Burning Snowballs in Viral Videos to ‘Prove’ the Snow is Fake

Have you seen those viral videos on TikTok and Twitter where users are burning snow to “prove” that it’s actually fake? Needless to say, the snow is real. The viral videos actually show a perfectly normal reaction to placing the flame of a lighter or match against a snowball. But that hasn’t stopped these videos…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 22

Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Fell Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole

The daughter of late, legendary film director Stanley Kubrick—The Shining, Space Odyssey: 2001, Dr. Strangelove, etc—is on board with extremist groups like the Proud Boys, Boogaloo, and QAnon, according to a Wednesday report in the Daily Beast. Vivian Kubrick is reportedly largely estranged from her family and largely known for her activities as a Scientologist.…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 17

QAnon Now Getting Banned On Platforms We’ve Never Even Heard Of

QAnon, the sprawling far-right internet conspiracy theory that asserts the entire Trump presidency was secretly dedicated to waging a shadow war against an omnipresent cabal of Satan-worshipping, pedophilic Democrats, celebrities, and bankers, hasn’t exactly been the belle of the ball lately. After QAnon adherents joined riots at the Capitol that killed at least five people…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 11

Twitter Clarifies That Trump Can’t Just Run for President Again to Get His Account Back

Donald Trump’s account is dead, kaput, slain, slaughtered, drawn and quartered, left out to rot and never coming back, according to Twitter. Twitter addicts are willing to do some frankly disturbing things to get back their accounts after a ban, including switching to alt accounts that also end up banned, launching doomed lawsuits, and chaining…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 10

The Future of Republican Politics Is Shitposting

Last week, the House voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments in large part because of what the new Georgia congresswoman posted on social media. While she was well-known as a QAnon conspiracy theorist before coming to Congress, in recent weeks, we’ve learned Taylor Greene trafficked in an outlandish and anti-Semitic…

Politics Brian Kahn Feb 9

CNN Offers Free Live TV Stream of Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial

CNN is dropping its paywall on live video so that anyone with an internet connection can watch the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump this week in the U.S. Senate. Make that the second impeachment trial, if we want to be precise. The impeachment trial in the Senate officially begins at 1:00 p.m. ET…

Politics Matt Novak Feb 9

When QAnon Blows Up Your Friend Group

My ex was the first person to tell me about Q. This was near the end of 2016, and we were in the beginning stages of our relationship. I took it as us having the same, passive interest in conspiracy theories. The kind of interest where you go, “LOL sounds like a Dan Brown novel!”…

Internet Joanna Nelius Feb 8

Dominion Tells Facebook, Parler, and Other Sites to Keep the Receipts

Dominion Voting Systems is taking some of the most vocal election fraud conspiracy theorists to court over their toothless claims in a string of billion-dollar defamation lawsuits. But with social media platforms purging far-right commentators and cracking down on election misinformation among other long-overdue moderation measures, Dominion has reportedly reached out to ensure all of…

Politics Alyse Stanley Feb 5

Newsmax Anchor Loses Final Shred of Self-Respect, Apologizes to the MyPillow Guy

Perhaps the only thing more embarrassing than being the Newsmax guy interviewing the MyPillow CEO on election fraud is being the Newsmax guy forced to apologize to the MyPillow CEO about election fraud. Per the Independent, MyPillow exec Mike Lindell—who managed to get bizarrely close to ex-President Donald Trump’s administration and is likely the first…

Politics Tom McKay Feb 4

TikTok Is Adding a Potential Misinformation Warning Label to Save Us From Ourselves

Like all social media companies, misinformation has tested TikTok, and sometimes TikTok has failed. Its latest attempt to move the needle is implementing warning labels on potential misinformation that hasn’t been verified by independent fact-checkers. TikTok said today in a press release that it’ll be looking for content that includes unproven claims, especially those spreading…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Feb 3

A Network of Twitter Bots Reportedly Launched a Smear Campaign on Belgium’s Huawei 5G Ban

A small cluster of pro-Huawei Twitter bots reportedly launched a smear campaign attacking the Belgian government’s plan to box out “high-risk” suppliers like Huawei from building the country’s 5G network, according to the latest report from social media research firm Graphika. Graphika uncovered the plot in December after Twitter accounts that had been used in…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jan 30

QAnon Congresswoman Also Believes a Space Laser Sparked California’s Deadliest Wildfire

It appears no conspiracy is too outlandish for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to peddle. There’s QAnon, false flag conspiracies about the Parkland shooting, and the whole election fraud lie. Now we can add a new one: That the deadly 2018 Camp Fire was ignited, intentionally, by a space laser so California could build a high…

Earther Brian Kahn Jan 28

Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets for Hate Speech Violations

After kicking off a historic rally around GameStop stock that has incited the ire of hedge fund tycoons and the SEC, the r/wallstreetbets channel was banned from Discord on Wednesday over apparent hate speech violations. While some on Reddit were quick to speculate that the server had been taken down by hackers as part of…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano Jan 27

Twitter User Hit With Criminal Charges for Memetic Voter Suppression in 2016 Election

If the online MAGA army wasn’t nervous before today, the Department of Justice just gave them a good reason to tighten their sphincters. In a surprising announcement, DOJ officials said on Wednesday that they’ve charged a prominent Twitter user with taking part in a conspiracy to trick citizens into not voting during the 2016 presidential…

Tech News Rhett Jones Jan 27

Twitter Launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a Community to Help Moderate Misinformation

Twitter announced on Monday that it had officially launched Birdwatch, a program designed to combat misinformation on the platform by deploying a small group of users to flag potentially misleading content. The pilot, which is so far comprised of about 1,000 U.S.-based users, will utilize a Wikipedia-style format that will eventually allow its members to add…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano Jan 25

The Fate of Trump’s Facebook Account to be Decided by Facebook’s Supreme Court

Facebook has handed the keys locking Donald Trump off its platforms over to its Oversight Board, which will decide whether the former president can once again spew his thoughts on a major social network. The question of whether to restore Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram, which the company blocked the day after Trump helped…

Tech News Andrew Couts Jan 21

Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies

QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind

Nashville Bombing Suspect Was Anti-Government Extremist, Believed in Lizard People: Report

Your Travel Guide to the Rudderless Right-Wing Web After Trump

TikTok Users Are Burning Snowballs in Viral Videos to ‘Prove’ the Snow is Fake

Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Fell Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole

QAnon Now Getting Banned On Platforms We’ve Never Even Heard Of

Twitter Clarifies That Trump Can’t Just Run for President Again to Get His Account Back

The Future of Republican Politics Is Shitposting

CNN Offers Free Live TV Stream of Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial

When QAnon Blows Up Your Friend Group

Dominion Tells Facebook, Parler, and Other Sites to Keep the Receipts

Newsmax Anchor Loses Final Shred of Self-Respect, Apologizes to the MyPillow Guy

TikTok Is Adding a Potential Misinformation Warning Label to Save Us From Ourselves

A Network of Twitter Bots Reportedly Launched a Smear Campaign on Belgium’s Huawei 5G Ban

QAnon Congresswoman Also Believes a Space Laser Sparked California’s Deadliest Wildfire

Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets for Hate Speech Violations

Twitter User Hit With Criminal Charges for Memetic Voter Suppression in 2016 Election

Twitter Launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a Community to Help Moderate Misinformation

The Fate of Trump’s Facebook Account to be Decided by Facebook’s Supreme Court

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