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Byline: Madalin Necsutu, Anthony Faiola BUCHAREST, Romania - The Constitutional Court took the extraordinary step of annulling Romania's presidential election Friday after the country's security services assessed that the nation [...]

Byline: Will Oremus, Naomi Nix, Andrea Jiménez Four years after the major social media platforms took unprecedented steps to crack down on falsehoods in the wake of the 2020 presidential [...]

Byline: Jeremy B. Merrill, Cristiano Lima-Strong, Caitlin Gilbert A significant gender gap has emerged in this year's presidential campaign, with women voters breaking for Vice President Kamala Harris and men [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the event where Tim Walz made a âparticularly spicyâ reference to JD Vance. It was during a speech [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima-Strong, Aaron Schaffer Days after former president Donald Trump's highly publicized live stream with Elon Musk on X, there's little-to-no public information about how much the GOP nominee [...]

Byline: Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill If you followed Elon Musk on Twitter in November 2021, you would have been bombarded with posts about Tesla and SpaceX, his two most [...]

Byline: Janay Kingsberry WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. - In 2014, Angelica 'Angie' Nwandu felt as if the world was closing in on her. Broke, unemployed and facing eviction, the aspiring screenwriter [...]

Christopher Blair, a renowned ''liberal troll'' who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from A.I. On the morning of Jan. [...]

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Byline: Megan Swift Jun. 4After attempting to ban TikTok from the White House, former President Donald Trump created an account just days after he was found guilty on all 34 [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell To save itself, TikTok in 2022 offered the U.S. government an extraordinary deal. The video app, owned by a Chinese company, said it would let federal officials [...]

Byline: Lee Hockstader PARIS - In 2022, European monitors who track Russian disinformation spotted an ambitious online influence operation they called Doppelganger. The Moscow-run effort cloned the websites of legitimate [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski, Joseph Menn, Naomi Nix, Will Oremus Election officials and researchers from Arizona to Taiwan are adopting a radical playbook to stop falsehoods about voting before they spread [...]

An internal analysis found nearly twice as many pro-Trump posts as pro-Biden ones on TikTok since November, a sign of the right's use of a liberal-friendly platform. Donald Trump isn't [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett, Ellen Francis A video posted to Donald Trump's social media platform featured references to âthe creation of a unified Reichâ along with hypothetical news headlines should the [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn Many political ads running on Facebook in India during its current election season are backed by organizations that hide their identity, according to civil society groups and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz With the passage of the bill that could effectively ban TikTok, ByteDanceâs other major product, the short form video editor CapCut, is in jeopardy. Multiple House aides [...]

Byline: Shira Ovide The law that President Biden signed Wednesday gives TikTok up to a year to find an owner that isnât Chinese or be banned in the United States. [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Former president Donald Trump is perhaps not the most credible critic of a potential TikTok ban, given that he tried to ban the app himself while in [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell A defiant TikTok is preparing to fight for its life in court after President Biden signed a law calling for its forced sale or ban in the [...]

The video app has been criticized for how it has handled posts users see about the war. Some of the same tensions have also played out inside the company. When [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell Elon Musk voiced support Tuesday morning for Pizzagate, the long-debunked conspiracy theory that led a man to fire a rifle inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant in 2016. [...]

The presidential candidate has argued that social media platforms should better police certain users and content, prompting backlash from some Republican rivals. Nikki Haley ratcheted up her calls this week [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang, Azi Paybarah and Dylan Wells After facing considerable blowback, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is walking back her declaration that all people should be required to [...]

SOCIAL MEDIA TikTok Is Pushing BackOn Antisemitism Claims TikTok pushed back on Thursday against growing claims in recent weeks that it had failed to protect Jewish users and had pushed [...]

2024 JAN 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA -- Researchers detail new data in mass media. According to news [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima Instagram on Sunday lifted its suspension against the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken anti-vaccine activist and nephew of the late president John F. Kennedy, [...]

Byline: Faiz Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO - It was supposed to be a monumental occasion for Twitter. For the first time, a presidential candidate would use the site's premier audio feature [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles and Faiz Siddiqui MIAMI - Ron DeSantis and his allies worked to build momentum ahead of a long-expected presidential campaign launch on Wednesday - rolling out endorsements, [...]

Byline: Will Oremus On March 23, lawmakers crowded into a packed Capitol hearing room to harangue the CEO of the social app TikTok about the company's Chinese ownership and the [...]

Amid talk of a nationwide ban, a reporter discussed the future for TikTok and its Chinese owner, ByteDance, in the United States. Times Insider explains who we are and what [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Cristiano Lima and Taylor Lorenz Last October, President Biden spent more than an hour at the White House with eight star TikTok creators, as Democrats sought to [...]

Gail Collins: Bret, I have to admit that when the subject of Donald Trump comes up these days, I tend to start telling sex-scandal stories. My bad. Bret Stephens: Don't [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn NEW YORK - An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted in New York earlier this month in a billion-dollar fraud case controls the conservative social media platform Gettr and [...]

She joined left-leaning colleagues to oppose a ban on the Chinese-owned app, which critics in both parties have said threatens national security. It was a bruising week for TikTok on [...]