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Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections

Media Manipulation

Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections

Demetrios Ioannou

Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Dug In Its Heels

Fair Fight?

Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Dug In Its Heels

Vittoria Elliott

An Anti-Trans Doctor Group Leaked 10,000 Confidential Files

Unhealthy Exposure

An Anti-Trans Doctor Group Leaked 10,000 Confidential Files

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election

YikesGPT

Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election

Thor Benson

The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built

Outfoxed

The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built

Vittoria Elliott and Peter Guest

Chinese Cops Ran Troll Farm and Secret NY Police Station, US Says

Hidden Forces

Chinese Cops Ran Troll Farm and Secret NY Police Station, US Says

Andy Greenberg

The Short Path From a Discord Flex to High Treason

Ideas

The Short Path From a Discord Flex to High Treason

Kaylee Williams and Emily Dreyfuss

The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army

Minefields

The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army

Arian Khameneh

Ukrainians’ Google Searches Reveal a Year of Fear—and Hope

Time Capsules

Ukrainians’ Google Searches Reveal a Year of Fear—and Hope

Paresh Dave

The Era of Faked CCTV Has Truly Arrived

Don't Look Now

The Era of Faked CCTV Has Truly Arrived

Hossein Derakhshan

Facebook Is Still Letting Russia Interfere in Politics

Krem-Links

Facebook Is Still Letting Russia Interfere in Politics

Morgan Meaker

Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City

Great Reset

Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City

Peter Guest

The Ohio Train Derailment Created a Perfect TikTok Storm

Toxic Trends

The Ohio Train Derailment Created a Perfect TikTok Storm

Amanda Hoover

Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots

Tweet Decked

Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots

Chris Stokel-Walker

Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI

Info Wars

Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI

Lydia Morrish

The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism

Comfort Zone

The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism

Thor Benson

Twitter Is a Megaphone for ‘Sudden Death’ Vaccine Conspiracies

Unchecked

Twitter Is a Megaphone for ‘Sudden Death’ Vaccine Conspiracies

Lydia Morrish

The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress

History Repeating

The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress

Vittoria Elliott

Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think

Bad Ban

Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think

Vittoria Elliott

A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia

Facebook in Africa

A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia

Vittoria Elliott and Dell Cameron