by Paul Vonderfecht | Oct 26, 2020 | Main
1. Misinformation efforts don’t need to be sophisticated to be successful. In Kentucky, an account with just 19 followers sent out a tweet on election night that claimed to have “shredded a box of Republican ballots.” The tweet, sent as a joke by a college student,...
by Paul Vonderfecht | Oct 24, 2020 | Main
In Thursday’s presidential debate, President Trump made several misleading claims about the business dealings of the family of his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr.Mr. Trump suggested, without evidence, that Mr. Biden had consulted for his son Hunter Biden to help with...
by Paul Vonderfecht | Oct 20, 2020 | Main
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.The U.S. government sued Google on Tuesday claiming that the company is an illegal monopoly. My colleagues called it “the government’s most significant legal challenge to a...
by Paul Vonderfecht | Oct 16, 2020 | Main
On Friday, President Trump tweeted a story from an unusual source: The Babylon Bee, a right-wing satire site that is often described as a conservative version of The Onion.“Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network to Slow Spread of Negative Biden News,” read the story’s...
by Paul Vonderfecht | Oct 13, 2020 | Main
The iPhone 12, the successor to last year’s iPhone 11, has arrived with an improved screen and faster chip, among other improvements.Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, took the wraps off the new device on Tuesday and emphasized that it has the capability to run on 5G...
by Paul Vonderfecht | Oct 9, 2020 | Main
Here at Daily Distortions, we try to debunk false and misleading information that has gone viral. We also want to give you a sense of how popular that misinformation is, in the overall context of what is being discussed on social media. Each Friday, we will feature a...
