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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.

Viral posts on social media claim COVID-19 is no worse than other outbreaks that have occurred in “every election year,” suggesting that the new coronavirus is being “hyped” to hurt President Donald Trump. But most of the dates cited to defend those conclusions about previous outbreaks are misleading or incorrect.

With the growing number of coronavirus cases and information coming at a rapid speed, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction.