When he was in charge of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Hans-Georg Maassen warned of how easy it was for people to be led astray by “disinformation” and “clumsy fake reports” on the internet, The Guardian reports. But since his dismissal from office last September, the former spy chief’s behavior on social media has raised questions over his own ability to distinguish conspiracy theories from truthful reporting, and sparked a debate about the neutrality of the powerful intelligence agency during a period in which a resurgent far right marched over several days in the city of Chemnitz. On Sunday Maassen shared on Twitter an article from a right-wing extremist blog claiming the rescue...
Protesters in San Juan are demanding Puerto Rico's governor step down. Ricardo Rosello used profanities in a social media chat to describe a politician. David Begnaud reports from Puerto Rico.
U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Monday pressed major social media companies on how they plan to handle the threat of deepfake images and videos on their platforms ahead of the 2020 elections.
U.S. President Donald Trump, whose Twitter malaprops often set off a deluge of social media criticism, was targeted on Friday for a linguistic misfire involving the phrase "locked and loaded."
