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Ever since Russian agents and other opportunists abused its platform in an attempt to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook has insisted — repeatedly — that it’s learned its lesson and is no longer a conduit for misinformation, voter suppression and election disruption

Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Nazi genocide.

Twitter is imposing tough new rules that restrict candidates from declaring premature victory and tighten its measures against spreading misinformation, calling for political violence and spreading thoughtless commentary in the days leading up to and following the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

With cases once again on the rise, health experts are warning Americans not to become lax in protecting themselves and others from the coronavirus.

Doctors and nurses treating those sick and dying from the coronavirus say the politics of the crisis are complicating treatment efforts.

President Donald Trump is receiving harsh criticism from both sides of the aisle for not taking the coronavirus seriously. Residents in Massachusetts have been speaking out about his recent tweets and videos since his own COVID-19 diagnosis.

Two of Facebook’s toughest critics on Capitol Hill have urged the social media platform to get serious about misinformation, voter suppression and hate speech ahead of the 2020 election.

Misinformation is everywhere online and becoming even more widespread as Election Day approaches. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker explains how to spot misinformation as well as how to clean your social media feeds to avoid encountering fake news.

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is launching a science information center to provide users with facts and resources around the climate crisis, NBC News reports.

Police and local officials on the West Coast are battling multiple raging fires. They’re also fighting a wave of misinformation from false rumors spread in neighborhood Facebook groups and on far-right websites that antifa activists were setting the blazes.

Facebook will start labeling all U.S. posts about voting to send users authoritative information about the elections

Misinformation about coronavirus is surging online, with President Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and others sharing a video with false claims about a Covid-19 “cure.” Kellie Burns, an associate professor at the University of South Florida, joined LX News to discuss the role social media companies must play in controlling its spread.

Melissa Fleming, the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, explains the effort to combat coronavirus misinformation online by asking people to pause and think about content before they share it.

Twitter has removed a vast network of accounts that it says is linked to the Chinese government and was pushing false information favorable to the country’s communist rulers. Beijing denied involvement Friday and said the company should instead take down accounts smearing China.

Former Vice President Joe Biden issued an open letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, calling for the social media giant to stamp out misinformation, including proposing a two-week pre-election period where all political ads are fact-checked. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee also called for “clear rules — applied to everyone, including Donald Trump — that prohibit threatening behavior and...

Tech companies scrambled to take down a slickly produced, documentary-style video in which an anti-vaccine activist and discredited researcher promotes a string of questionable, false and potentially dangerous coronavirus conspiracy theories

Twitter announced Monday it will warn users with a label when a tweet contains disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus

At the end of another long shift treating coronavirus patients, Dr. Hadi Halazun opened his Facebook page to find a man insisting to him that “no one’s dying” and that the coronavirus is “fake news” drummed up by the news media.

Facebook, Google and other platforms are taking unprecedented steps to protect public health as potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation spreads around the world

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to information overload for many people, often making it difficult to separate fact from fiction and rumor from deliberate efforts to mislead.