Separately, de Moraes is leading an aggressive investigation into so-called digital militias accused of spreading disinformation and hate speech during the Bolsonaro administration.

"The defendant weaponized disinformation in a dangerous scheme to stop targeted groups, including black and brown people and women, from participating in our democracy," Peace said in a statement after Mackey's sentencing.

Do you recall the announcement from the Biden administration about the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board back in April 2022?

Bureaucracy Complicates Issue of Misinformation The Chinese Communist Party has actively interfered in elections throughout the world by spreading disinformation.

Through the now-closed “Global Engagement Center,” aimed at countering foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation, the Biden administration used social media to downgrade and demonetize citizens and journalists online who didn’t align with

"Some participants expressed unease at the notion that the government should be the entity deciding what material constitutes misinformation and disinformation."

President Donald Trump has prohibited his former national security adviser John Bolton and the intelligence officials who called the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation from having unescorted access to secure federal buildings.

Prosecutors said Mackey spread disinformation and infringed on the right to vote, while defense lawyers argued that the memes were jokes that were protected by the First Amendment.

The landmark law aims to enforce rigorous content moderation by requiring social media platforms to remove illegal content, conduct risk assessments, prevent harmful activities online, and curb the spread of "disinformation."

In announcing Kennedy as his nominee to lead the department, Trump said he would take on the status quo in the health sector such as "the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation" and

The plan proposes to eliminate programs such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s disinformation offices, accusing it of targeting and censoring Americans.

"For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to public health," Trump posted on Truth Social in November 2024.

reporters Jan. 20 that he has defended the consumer and industrial carbon pricing schemes for the last three years, and accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of contributing to the policy's unpopularity among Canadians through the spread of "disinformation

In addition to targeting Russian defence, transport, and finance sectors, Australia has imposed sanctions on individuals and groups spreading disinformation to undermine Ukraine and other governments worldwide.

The landmark law aims to enforce rigorous content moderation by requiring social media platforms to remove illegal content, conduct risk assessments, prevent harmful activities online, and curb the spread of “disinformation.”

(Gregory Plesse/AFP via Getty Images) The second recommendation called for the official endorsement of the UNESCO Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change launched last year, which calls for action against the alleged impact of "disinformation

An accompanying FAQ further clarified the NSF's revised policy, noting that the agency "will not support research with the goal of combating 'misinformation,' 'disinformation,' and 'malinformation,'" as it would "unconstitutionally abridge the free speech

Chinese state media outlets should not be granted broadcasting licences in Canada because their content is meant to feed "misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda" to overseas Chinese, an expert witness told a House committee on March 30.

The report was met with suppression on some of the largest social media platforms and labeled as Russian disinformation in a letter signed by 51 former members of U.S. intelligence agencies—two of whom are now saying they signed it at the direction of

This is because the EU’s “Fighting COVID-19 Disinformation” program was launched within the framework of its more general so-called Code of Practice on Disinformation.

"As abortion misinformation and disinformation surge online, patients can come to doubt their health care institutions, their doctors, and themselves—putting their own health and safety at risk."

And so, you know, building our defenses, especially in the age of AI [artificial intelligence], where very much of the cognitive warfare or the disinformation is amplified.

It is a new concept that defines as disinformation anything that, for example, promotes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, he said.

To achieve this goal, the CCP’s state-backed trolls have spread disinformation about the Kyiv government and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Other government officials also raised concerns with Canada's Foreign Interference Commission in 2024 about social media platforms such as TikTok being used by the Chinese regime to target youth as part of its disinformation efforts to shape future Western

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They are deliberate campaigns to spread disinformation and fear. “If they go unchallenged we risk the public being conned and their well-being potentially damaged. “These campaigns are also a threat to the health of our democracy.

Musk also previously branded the Labor government “fascists” over its failed bid to fine tech companies for misinformation and disinformation on their platforms.

Gottheimer said the CCP has made it clear it plans to "exploit any tool at its disposal to undermine our national security, spew harmful disinformation, and collect data on Americans."