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Substack’s Growth Spurt Brings Growing Pains
There are things that the newsletter writer Kirsten Han misses about Substack. They just aren’t enough to outweigh the downsides.…
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Brazil’s Far-Right Disinformation Pushers Find a Safe Space on Telegram
RIO DE JANEIRO — Shortly after President Donald J. Trump was banned from Twitter early this year, Brazil’s like-minded leader…
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Facebook’s outage frustrates advertisers heading into the holiday season.
For more than five hours on Monday, while Facebook and Instagram were dark, David Herrmann fretted about ads. Mr. Herrmann,…
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TikTok Wants More Ad Dollars, and It Has a New Plan to Get Them
TikTok has a bit of an advertising problem. Homemade videos that function more or less like commercials have received hundreds…
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Facebook groups promoting ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment continue to flourish.
Facebook has become more aggressive at enforcing its coronavirus misinformation policies in the past year. But the platform remains a…
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That Comment Someone Left on Facebook? It Can Get You Sued.
Dylan Voller was already a polarizing figure in Australia when the disturbing, violent and demonstrably false accusations against him began…
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Wikipedia’s next leader on preventing misinformation: ‘Neutrality requires understanding.’
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all…
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