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The Fake Newsletter: Hurricane Misinformation Playbook

Here are some of the Hurricane Florence fakes to watch out for.
Jane Lytvynenko • 10 days ago

What We Know And Don’t Know About The Unverified Claim China Hacked Hillary Clinton’s Server

Many of the claims are baseless and lacking proof.
Craig Silverman • 23 days ago

Revealed: Notorious Pro-Trump Misinformation Site True Pundit Is Run By An Ex-Journalist With A Grudge Against The FBI

How award-winning former journalist Michael D. Moore came to run a site filled with false reports and conspiracies.
Craig Silverman • 26 days ago

The Fake Newsletter: Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself

The problem with tech’s apology cornucopia.
Jane Lytvynenko • One month ago

Meet The People Who Spend Their Free Time Trying To Fix Facebook

"We know we have more work to do," Facebook said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
Craig Silverman • One month ago

This Startup Wants To Sell Verified Breaking News Alerts To Companies

Factal says it combines technology with journalists to deliver real-time alerts about incidents that pose a risk to company facilities and employees.
Craig Silverman • One month ago

This Huge Hyperpartisan American Conservative Facebook Page Was Rented Out To Guys In India

The fate of the once-lucrative American News Facebook page shows how much the hyperpartisan news business has struggled since 2016.
Craig Silverman • One month ago

Macedonia’s Pro-Trump Fake News Industry Had American Links, And Is Under Investigation For Possible Russia Ties

An investigation reveals that the fake news sites that flourished in Macedonia in 2016 weren’t just the work of local teens — and that security agencies are probing possible connections to Russia.
Craig Silverman • 2 months ago

Help Us Make Political Advertising More Transparent

We're collecting and analyzing political ads that people like you are being targeted with on Facebook.
Craig Silverman • 2 months ago

Facebook Is About To Bring The Hammer Down On Overseas Fake News Operators

The company rolled out new tech it says can help automatically identify pages spreading fake news.
Craig Silverman • 3 months ago

A Marketing Site Deleted Over 7,000 Articles After It Was Caught Stealing Fact-Checks And Plagiarizing

They messed with the wrong fact checker.
Craig Silverman • 3 months ago

Facebook Has Finally Put Its Controversial Trending Product Out Of Its Misery

What Trending lacked in usage it made up for in controversy, negative press coverage, and frustrations for Facebook.
Craig Silverman • 3 months ago

The Fake Newsletter: How Many Times Have You Listened To "Lemonade"?

Inside the murky world of music streaming manipulation.
Jane Lytvynenko • 4 months ago

The DC Cybersecurity Think Tank Caught Using Fake Twitter Accounts Has Lost Sponsors, And Its Shady Cofounder Is Gone

Following a BuzzFeed News investigation, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology cofounder James Scott has “voluntarily decided to step away” and a law firm will review claims about him.
Craig Silverman • 4 months ago

How YouTube's "Super Chat" System Is Pushing Video Creators Toward More Extreme Content

During one livestream, someone using the screen name National Socialist spent $100 to display the message “WHITE PRIDE WORLD WIDE!”
Ishmael N. Daro • 4 months ago

A DC Think Tank Used Fake Social Media Accounts, A Bogus Expert, And Fancy Events To Reach The NSA, FBI, And White House

ICIT bills itself as "America's Cybersecurity Think Tank." But BuzzFeed News found it's running fake Twitter accounts and its top expert has questionable credentials.
Craig Silverman • 4 months ago

A New Facebook Feature Shows Which Pro-Trump Facebook Pages Are Run From Overseas

The feature is called "Page History" but now it's gone.
Jane Lytvynenko • 4 months ago

This Former Tea Party Activist Is Teaching People To Spot Fake News

“I kept coming across people who I knew were smart people and sensitive people who were sharing fake stuff," says Felicia Cravens.
Craig Silverman • 4 months ago

We're Tracking All The Rumors About Toronto Van Attack Suspect Alek Minassian

Here's your guide to what's true, false, and unverified about the 25-year-old man identified by officials Monday as the suspect who killed at least 10 people on a crowded Toronto street.
Craig Silverman • 5 months ago