Twitter now explicitly says that Joe Biden won the election. Burn.Photo: Tom Pennington (Getty Images) Twitter has gone one step further in its efforts to dispel election misinformation, especially the nonsense spouted by one of the most powerful people in the world, President Donald Trump. In fact, its latest initiative may be a particularly painful …
Photo: Leon Neal / Staff (Getty Images) Expanding upon an existing feature that warns users who attempt to retweet content that has already been flagged as “misleading information,” Twitter will now issue the same warning when users attempt to like content that has been similarly designated. Advertisement In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, …
Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) Since his loss in the Nov. 3 elections, Donald Trump has largely dipped out of public view and occupied his time in some gold-plated panic room, issuing a ridiculous series of tweets claiming victory in various states and ordering his cartoon parody of a campaign legal team to sally forth …
Election workers count Fulton County ballots at the State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo: Jessica McGowan (Getty Images) Tech companies of all shapes and sizes are apparently taking note of what happens when you let rampant misinformation, or conspiracy theories, flourish on your platform and don’t do anything about it. This …
U.S. President Donald Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club, on November 7, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia. News outlets projected that Democratic nominee Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States after a victory in Pennsylvania.Photo: Al Drago (Getty Images) After getting through all the feelings—Hallelujah, thank God—that came up once former …
Photo: Jeff Swensen (Getty Images) Someone is mailing QAnon-themed material to residents of Minneapolis suburbs, the Intercept reported on Thursday, and it’s not clear who’s doing it or why. Advertisement QAnon is a conspiracy theory that mashes various strands of paranoid thinking into a convenient narrative: That a worldwide network of Satanic pedophiles, comprising elites …