A Researcher Just Found A 9,000-Video Network Of YouTube Conspiracy-Related Videos
"It's already tipped in favor of the conspiracists, I think."
Twitter Is Still Allowing Scammers To Hijack Verified Accounts To Take People’s Money
Unlike past versions of Twitter cryptocurrency phishing, @TronFoundationl is different: It has a verification badge, the blue check mark that Twitter uses to delineate famous or important accounts from imposters.
Why Can Everyone Spot Fake News But YouTube, Facebook, And Google?
And beyond that, why is it — after multiple national tragedies politicized by hoaxes and misinformation — that such a question even needs to be asked?
The Pro-Trump Media Has Met Its Match In The Parkland Students
The pro-Trump media chose a political enemy effectively born onto the internet and innately capable of waging an information war.
Apple's New HomePod Is Leaving Mysterious White Rings On Wood Tables
Apple recommends cleaning the surface with an oiled cloth.
Believable: The Terrifying Future Of Fake News
"What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?"
Scammers Are Impersonating Elon Musk And Donald Trump To Take Your Bitcoin
And they're using automated networks of bot accounts to do it.
The Latest "Bitcoin" Ploy? Faking A Super Bowl Ad Rejection.
"It wasn’t rejected because it was never reviewed because the company never made a buy," an NBC spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
Devin Nunes Is No Alex Jones
Congressman Devin Nunes used the pro-Trump media playbook but veered away from a key tenet: The tease and build-up aren’t just the appetizer, they're the entire meal.
Apple Confirms "Some Government Agencies" Are Probing iPhone Slowdown
"We have received questions from some government agencies and we are responding to them."
Sign Up For Infowarzel — A BuzzFeed News Newsletter About The Fever Swamps
BuzzFeed News senior writer Charlie Warzel brings you breaking news and analysis in a newsletter about Big Tech, the pro-Trump media, and the internet's daily information wars.
Chelsea Manning Made An Appearance At A Pro-Trump Gala
Manning said she "crashed" the event. One attendee who knows Manning told BuzzFeed News that "while she was not there protesting she was there in an effort to bridge gaps between left and right."
Facebook Is Going To Let Users Rank News Credibility
“We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective.”
Twitter Says No, Hundreds Of Twitter Employees Are Not Reading Your DMs
"We do not proactively review DMs. Period."
Facebook Couldn't Handle News. Maybe It Never Wanted To.
The world's largest social network wants to go back to an idealized safe space, free of hyperpartisan pages, misinformation, and fake news. Can it?
How The Alt-Right — And Paul Ryan's Challenger — Coordinate To Fight The "Jewish Media"
In a private Twitter DM group, Wisconsin congressional candidate Paul Nehlen said his enemies were "working for Jewish media" and promised to "decimate them all," according to screenshots obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Far-Right Activist Charles Johnson Has Sued Twitter Over His Suspension
“This is going to be a very serious case over the freedom of the internet,” Johnson told BuzzFeed News.
"Fire And Fury" Is The First Book Of The Post-Truth Social Media Era
The Trump tell-all is an incendiary piece of factually debatable content that’s perfectly engineered for virality and, depending on your side, a confirmation of every politically motivated suspicion.
19 Things BuzzFeed Tech Tried And Liked In 2017
All the innovations, apps, hacks, habits, gadgets, and robovacuums that made our lives a little better this year.
2017 Was The Year That The Internet Destroyed Our Shared Reality
How the pro-Trump media, conspiratorial hyperpartisans, and delinquent platforms ushered in two parallel universes of information.