Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech. Toward the end of 2022, engineers on Meta’s team combating misinformation were ready to debut a key fact-checking tool that had taken half a year to build. The company needed all the reputational help it could get after a string of crises had badly damaged the credibility of Facebook and Instagram and given regulators... 

Lawmakers in Ireland have passed a new law that will make it illegal for citizens to view or share any non-mainstream media content on their phones and computer devices. Yes, really. The new legislation means that anything viewed online that has been deemed “hateful” by fact-checkers will result in prison time for those who have viewed or shared it. Thegatewaypundit.com reports: Elon Musk weighed... 

After calling it a fake Russian disinformation plot or just ignoring it altogether for over a year, the media is suddenly desperate for Americans to know that the Hunter Biden laptop from hell story is totally real. The Washington Post covered the story, admitting that documents which were first reported on by The New York Post in October 2020 “illustrate the ways in which his family profited from... 

In a rare moment of lucidity, Joe Biden admitted that a ‘New World Order’ aimed at drastically reshaping humanity is imminent thanks to the carefully orchestrated war unfolding in Ukraine. “You know, we are at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy – not just the world economy, the world – occurs every three or four generations,” Biden declared Monday during a Business Roundtable... 

Twitter deleted a tweet by mRNA technology pioneer Dr. Luigi Warren about viral shedding, a concept referring to the process of the body releasing viral particles due to a vaccine and potentially causing a risk of infection to others. The platform did not provide a reason for deleting the tweet and restricting the mRNA technology expert. “I believe the ‘shedding’ idea is that the vaccinated...