For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coordinated inauthentic behavior—particularly foreign influence operations. They've insisted that any attempt to study and limit such operations is actually just "censorship" with various forms of cover, whether academic or operational.

Flagrant civil rights abuses are enabled by a legal scheme that makes it all but impossible to sue federal agents for constitutional violations and shields them with immunity should that barrier ever ...

Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.

Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

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