The US Supreme Court has likely touched off yet another flood of misinformation for social media companies reluctant to deal with the issue. But first...
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• A judge said that Pinterest must face a lawsuit from a woman claiming she helped create it
• A Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange is cutting hundreds of jobs
Major news events are always fertile ground for misinformation. That was my first thought upon hearing that the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, as expected. A month ago, I wrote about how misinformation had spiked in the wake of the leaked draft court ruling that signaled the court would overturn the right to abortion; in the coming weeks, I expect even more of it.
Misinformation peddlers, ever the opportunists, will advance a hodgepodge of false narratives around abortion and the Supreme Court ruling on all the major tech platforms: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok, plus fringe far-right social networks like Gab, Parler, Rumble and TruthSocial.
Because misinformation is often repetitive and cyclical, we have a pretty good sense of the types of rumors they will spread, too. They will exaggerate unsupported claims about a favorite bogeyman movement, Antifa—a loose collective of antifascist activists—saying there is a nationwide conspiracy to hold coordinated violent rioting around this ruling. On...
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