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April 17, 2020
Fact-checkers base judgments on posts and news pieces on the information at hand. However, what happens when the information is outdated? Is the fact-check taken back?
An op-ed published in the New York Post (NY Post) by Population Research…
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April 17, 2020
An Idaho evangelical church might have had its app pulled from the Google Playstore for having references about the coronavirus within the app.
Christ Church, a church in Moscow, Idaho, alleged that its app was suspended on Good Friday, April 10.…
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April 21, 2020
COVID-19 is a phenomenon that even the most trusted sources have known almost nothing about since it began to spread in Wuhan, China. Outlets like CNN and organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) have published material that later…
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April 27, 2020
A Facebook fact-checking partner determined that President Donald Trump did not tell people to inject themselves with disinfectants to cure the coronavirus.
Lead Stories, a fact-checking outlet run by former CNN employees, took a video from popular…
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April 29, 2020
A popular video featuring California emergency doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi was taken down by YouTube for “violating YouTube’s terms of service.”
Based on their own research, the hour-long conference asked, “Does…
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June 1, 2020
Facebook made a point to take down protest pages during the shutdowns. But it doesn’t seem to want to do the same for the leftist protests occurring in 16 states.
“Events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on…
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March 23, 2020
Facebook currently relies on nine fact-checking organizations in the United States to help the platform “reduce” and “remove” problematic content. However, many of the people the company has put in charge of suppressing…
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March 26, 2020
Twitter released a policy stating that it would restrict and remove content that would “place people at a higher risk of transmitting COVID-19.” But while some articles are left up, other articles from conservative outlets receive the…
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March 27, 2020
Is it "hate speech" when liberals call for people to commit suicide?
Occupy Democrats, a very popular liberal Facebook page with more than 8.6 million followers, posted a screencap of a tweet on March 26 that wished for the suicide of two…
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March 30, 2020
Twitter was reportedly very eager to take down any tweets about hydroxychloroquine and coronavirus. But now that the FDA has approved the drug for the treatment of coronavirus, will Twitter restore some of the tweets it censored?
A tweet from…
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