Steven Lee Myers
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Fact or Fiction? In This War, It Is Hard to Tell.
Social media is full of false and misleading posts. The rise in A.I. is making it worse. And the trust in traditional news sources has...
China Uses ‘Deceptive’ Methods to Sow Disinformation, U.S. Says
The accusations reflect worry in Washington that China’s information operations pose a growing security challenge to the United States.
E.U. Law Sets the Stage for a Clash Over Disinformation
The law, aimed at forcing social media giants to adopt new policies to curb harmful content, is expected to face blowback from Elon Musk, who...
Appeals Court Rules White House Overstepped 1st Amendment on Social Media
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin.
With Climate Panel as a Beacon, Global Group Takes on Misinformation
A group of scholars introduced an international panel to study the digital information landscape, inspired by those who had been warning of the effect of...
China’s Search Engines Have More Than 66,000 Rules Controlling Content, Report Says
Researchers from the Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity research group, found that the most diligent censor in China is Microsoft’s search engine Bing, the only foreign...
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle...
A Federal Court Blocks California’s New Medical Misinformation Law
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
Is Spreading Medical Misinformation a Doctor’s Free Speech Right?
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.