Fake accounts, old videos, and rumors fuel chaos around Gaza hospital explosion Misleading and false information is muddying efforts to uncover who is responsible for the deadly blast that killed hundreds of people Shannon Bond Play AudioListen 4 mins
States sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook fueled youth mental health crisis More than 40 states filed legal actions against Meta on Tuesday, alleging that the company intentionally designed features that hooked a generation of young people. Bobby Allyn
Is it true or not? Israeli group FakeReporter fact checks while seeking shelter A former Israeli combat soldier runs a nonprofit out of his in-laws' front yard that fact-checks posts on social media about the Israel-Hamas war in real time. Bobby Allyn Play AudioListen 4 mins
Week in Review: crime, off-duty pilot, and mountain snowfall Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with KUOW's Dyer Oxley, Mike Davis, and Monica Nickelsburg. Kevin Kniestedt Bill Radke Play AudioListen 53 mins
At the Supreme Court, 'First Amendment interests all over the place' At issue were cases that test the ability of public officials to block critics from their "personal" social medial pages, a practice that Donald Trump often engaged in when he was president. Nina Totenberg
Why the fight to counter false election claims may be harder in 2024 Experts say a right-wing campaign has cast efforts to combat rumors and conspiracy theories as censorship. As a result, they say, the tools to tamp down on election falsehoods have been scaled back. Miles Parks Shannon Bond
The story behind the Osama bin Laden videos on TikTok A manifesto written by the terrorist leader in 2002 resurfaced on TikTok, but the backlash to the videos was more widespread than the videos themselves. Bobby Allyn
Advertiser exodus grows as Elon Musk's X struggles to calm concerns over antisemitism A advertiser backlash has begun to snowball on X since Elon Musk endorsed an antisemetic post on the site and following a report that highlighted company ads next to pro-Nazi content. Bobby Allyn
Civilian deaths are being dismissed as 'crisis actors' in Gaza and Israel As graphic images from Gaza flood social media platforms, many people are claiming those images are fake, in the latest iteration of a disturbing trope. Shannon Bond Play AudioListen 5 mins
Meta warns that China is stepping up its online social media influence operations China has become the third most common source of foreign influence operations, behind Russia and Iran, according to the owner of Facebook and Instagram. Shannon Bond
