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  • FILE – The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays the TikTok home screen, March 18, 2023, in Boston. Social media platforms often rely on labels to let users know an account is operated by a Russian state propaganda agency. But new research shows that on TikTok at least, the labels aren’t very effective even when they’re applied consistently. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)Tech

    TikTok’s Russian propaganda label has been haphazard and ineffective, according to a new study

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Jevin WestSuccess

    Americans barely have media literacy. Now teachers have to tackle ‘digital literacy.’

    By David Klepper, Manuel Valdes, and others
  • editor looking at online information about vasectomy procedures.Tech

    Teaching internet literacy: The growing movement working to offset an explosion of online misinformation

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Researchers have uncovered a network of tens of thousands of fake Twitter accounts created to support ex-President Donald Trump and attack his critics and potential rivals. Those targeted by the bot network include Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. secretary now challenging Trump for the Republican nomination, as well as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Tech

    A sprawling army of Twitter bots has spent the last few months praising Donald Trump and slamming his Republican critics

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • EMTs transfer a patient in the busy ambulance bay at UMass Memorial Medical Center.Health

    Latest report on COVID-19’s suspected lab origins fuels more conspiracies: ‘Everything we skeptics said was true’

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Sen. Joni Ernst talks to reporters.Health

    COVID-19 origins: Lab leak or spread from animals? The latest of many attempts by scientists and officials to identify the virus source remains hazy

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Ilan ShorLeadership

    Sanctioned Moldovan oligarch close to Putin allowed to run Facebook ads calling for political revolution

    By David Klepper, Stephen McGrath, and others
  • Moldova’s parliamentary candidate Ilan Shor, businessman, leader of his self-named party and the mayor of the town of Orhei, arrives to meet with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. – On the campaign trail, businessman Ilan Shor insists corruption is Moldova’s most pressing issue, despite himself having been convicted in a fraud case dubbed “the crime of the century”. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP) (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Facebook ran ads for a Kremlin-connected Moldovan oligarch sanctioned by the US targeting the country’s pro-Western government

    By David Klepper, Stephen McGrath, and others
  • Balloon and UFOPolitics

    Social media’s reaction to the ballooning UFO carnage shows that the internet doesn’t trust the government

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Sundar PichaiLeadership

    ‘This is a good news story in what has essentially been a bad news business’: Google expands ‘prebunking’ program

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Google logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, June 15, 2022. Google is expanding an initiative that shows promise in fighting online misinformation. The tech company announced Monday that it will roll out a new “prebunking” campaign in Germany. Pre-bunking works like a viral inoculation by priming a person’s critical thinking skills to make them more resistant to false claims. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)Tech

    Google’s now will be ‘prebunking’ online misinformation

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • YelpTech

    Yelp is removing an exponentially increasing amount of racist restaurant reviews from its platform

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Someone holding a smart phone with a ChatGPT prompt.Tech

    It turns out that ChatGPT is really good at creating online propaganda: ‘I think what’s clear is that in the wrong hands there’s going to be a lot of trouble’

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk Twitter account displayed on a phone screen and Twitter logoTech

    Musk’s new Twitter verification system has put ‘rocket boosters’ on climate change lies and disinformation

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
  • Tucker CarlsonHealth

    Tucker Carlson, social media and Damar Hamlin’s horror injury combine to create a vaccine misinformation field day

    By Ali Swenson, David Klepper, and others