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Whistleblower: Facebook undermines kids and democracy. Will Congress do something?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Trump on One America News.

Uncanceled: Banned from Facebook, Trump reaches millions on TV

By Matt Field | Analysis

Bill Gates shows a vaccine at UN press conference in 2011

The quest to rid Facebook of vaccine misinformation

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A post by Kevin Mathewson.

A man who had urged armed resistance to Kenosha protestors kept up a Facebook account, even after the company purged his “militia” group

By Matt Field | Technology and Security

Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Facebook removes pro-Soleimani Instagram content, calling it support for terrorism. Laurence Tribe says FB has it wrong

By Matt Field | Technology and Security

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.

The fight over social media’s potent political ads just got more interesting

By Justin Sherman | Disruptive Technologies

Cyber Report: Right-wing social media

By Matt Field, Thomas Gaulkin | Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

Why 2020 disinformation campaigns may be outsourced to the Philippines

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood outside the US Capitol on April 10, 2018, placed there by the advocacy group Avaaz to call attention to fake accounts spreading disinformation on Facebook. Credit: Kevin Wolf/AP images for AVAAZ

Why Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are bad for the climate

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Photo illustration by Matt Field based in part on photos by premier.gov.ru and www.kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Ahead of 2020, disinformation and fake news are alive and well on social media 

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Is breaking up big tech the solution to online hate or election meddling?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Sean P. Anderson via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Social media regulation and its discontents

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading