Elon Musk says he will fight charges of violating Europe's Digital Services Act. Musk during a visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair in Paris, on June 16, 2023 and (R) the new Twitter logo rebranded as X, pictured on a screen in Paris on July 24, 2023. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Supporters attend a campaign rally for Taiwan's main opposition party, Kuomintang, ahead of this month's presidential election, in Taipei on Dec. 23. I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Under Twitter CEO Elon Musk, the company has stopped its previous practice of limiting the spread of tweets from Russian, Chinese and Iranian government media accounts. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
La información falsa dirigida a la comunidad latina está creciendo. Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 hide caption
From left, Greta Gerwig as Babette, Raffey Cassidy as Denise, May Nivola as Steffie, Sam Nivola as Heinrich and Adam Driver as Jack in White Noise. Netflix hide caption
Misinformation about abortion targeting Latinas is spreading online. Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 hide caption
Ivermectin has developed an enormous following over the course of the pandemic – in part because of a small cadre of fringe doctors who promote it as an alternative to COVID vaccines, despite early studies which didn't support it as a treatment. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption
Twitter is the latest social platform to grapple with the misinformation, propaganda and rumors that have proliferated since Russia invaded Ukraine Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
A COVID Memorial Project installation in September, 2020 marked 200,000 lives lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. The official death toll in the U.S. is on the cusp of a million. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
The podcast Science Vs. has called on its parent company, Spotify, to curb misinformation on its platform. Thanee Chooha Noom/EyeEm/Getty Images hide caption
A new report from a watchdog group finds that the platform only labeled about half of the posts promoting articles from the world's main publishers of climate denial. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Joe Rogan, the comedian, TV commentator and podcaster, reacts during an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in May 2020. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images hide caption
People line up to receive a rapid COVID-19 test in an agricultural community in Immokalee, Fla., where the poverty rate is over 40%. Partners in Health is working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to test, educate and vaccinate the community during the pandemic. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Lee Merritt is a orthopedic and spinal surgeon who spreads misinformation about COVID-19. She is affiliated with a prominent right-wing group known as America's Frontline Doctors. R. Kellman/Screenshot from Rumble hide caption
YouTube has announced immediate bans on false claims that vaccines are dangerous and cause health issues such as autism, cancer or infertility. Danny Moloshok/AP hide caption
Some leading Democratic lawmakers are accusing Amazon of profiting off the spread of COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation. Michel Spingler/AP hide caption
Google's Sundar Pichai, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey face Congressional scrutiny over the spread of misinformation on their platforms. Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images/Composite by NPR hide caption
Critics say Facebook does not apply its rules against misinformation as robustly to posts in Spanish, allowing harmful claims to spread. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
Facebook has promised repeatedly in recent years to address the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation on its site. Ben Margot/AP hide caption
False conspiracy theories have always been a part of U.S. history, but experts say they're spreading faster and wider than ever before. Matt Williams for NPR hide caption
Twitter's new pilot program Birdwatch aims to enlist the social network's users to fact check each other's tweets. Twitter/Screenshot by NPR hide caption