Billboards and 'hate mail' with anti-LGBTQ+ messages are targeting Texas candidates. | via keranews
Demonstrators gather on the steps to the state Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in 2021.
The report also found that among the most-viewed “grooming” tweets, a handful of recognizable names were most responsible for driving the grooming narrative, including Congressional Republicans like“What we find is that although a small number of highly motivated bad actors produce the bulk of the content, it's the millions, the hundreds of millions of people that see the content as a result of social media platforms amplifying it, broadcasting it to their enormous audiences, that the...
The report also found that tech companies either failed to act against or profited from the “grooming” narrative, even though that narrative violated the companies’ own stated policies. Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, made money off ads promoting the “grooming” narrative, the report states.Disinformation, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.