Business Facebook Reaches Deal With News Corp. Australia To Pay For News Content The three-year deal came weeks after Facebook briefly blocked Australian news outlets' content on its platform to protest a change in the country's media law requiring the company to pay for it. Scott Neuman
Politics Far-Right Misinformation Is Thriving On Facebook. A New Study Shows Just How Much Research from New York University found that far-right accounts known for spreading misinformation drive engagement at higher rates than other news sources. Michel Martin Will Jarvis
Health Facebook Widens Ban On COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation In Push To Boost Confidence The social network says it will focus on groups, pages and accounts repeatedly sharing false claims about vaccines. Shannon Bond
National Unwelcome On Facebook And Twitter, QAnon Followers Flock To Fringe Sites As Twitter and Facebook crack down on those spreading baseless QAnon conspiracies, adherents are finding other apps to communicate on, including platforms where they may be further radicalized. Shannon Bond
Technology Facebook 'Supreme Court' Orders Social Network To Restore 4 Posts In First Rulings The panel of experts tasked with reviewing Facebook's most difficult content decisions has issued its first rulings, dealing with hate speech, nudity and COVID-19 misinformation. Shannon Bond
World Twitter Bans Account Linked To Iran's Supreme Leader An image that seems to threaten former President Donald Trump has prompted Twitter to deactivate an account linked to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The image also appears on Khameini's website. Dustin Jones
Technology Fast-Growing Alternative To Facebook, Twitter Finds Right-Wing Surge 'Messy' Social network MeWe began as a privacy-focused alternative to Facebook. Trump supporters and right-wing groups disillusioned with mainstream social media have flocked to it since the Jan. 6 riot. Shannon Bond
Technology Facebook Asks Oversight Board Whether Trump's Account Should Be Restored Now The social network referred its decision to revoke the former president's posting privileges to its Oversight Board, an independent panel of experts. Shannon Bond
National Facebook Removes 'Stop the Steal' Content, Twitter Suspends QAnon Accounts Twitter has suspended more than 70,000 accounts spreading the QAnon conspiracy theory since Friday. Facebook is removing content with the phrase "stop the steal." Brakkton Booker
National Facebook Taps Former Obama Official As Vice President Of Civil Rights Roy Austin Jr. will fill the new position, which was created by Facebook after a scathing audit released in July 2020 concluded the company's policies had caused "serious setbacks for civil rights." Brakkton Booker
