DARE: 6 Types of Misinformation to Beware Of on Election Day. (And What to Do if You Spot Them.)
Americans head to the polls to vote in the midterm elections, a powerful act of self-expression, amid manifest threats to voting rights and fair elections.. More
DARE: The New York Times Asked for Examples of Election Misinformation. Readers Delivered.
New York Times' crowd-sourced examples of election-related misinformation surfaces over 4,000 examples of fraudulent or misleading content online ahead... More
DARE: Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance
Investigation finds that the Pentagon is accelerating efforts to predict and preempt anti-Trump and anti-government protests using social media surveilla... More
DARE: How Vilification of George Soros Moved From the Fringes to the Mainstream
Vilification of philanthropist human rights benefactor George Soros began on the far right and migrated toward mainstream. Google employees walk out to... More
DARE: Press Struggles with Amplifying Trump’s Pre-Midterms Claims
President Trump’s false claim that the United States is the only country allowing birthright citizenship and his proposal to undo the Constitutional amen... More
DARE: Defiant and Divisive, Trump Set to Honor Pittsburgh Victims
Trump travels today to Pittsburgh, where some say he is unwelcome in light of harsh rhetoric that they argue helped fuel Saturday's attack on the synagogue. More
DARE: The Conspiratorial Hate We See Online Is Increasingly Appearing In Real Life
The impact of words—said, unsaid, repeated, tweeted, and deleted, on and offline—is in full and tragic evidence after 11 worshipers are murdered in a Pittsburgh synagogue by an anti-Semite… More
DARE: Two More Bombs Found, Sent to Cory Booker and CNN
More mail bombs are found en route to current and former top government officials who have been critical of the Trump administration. Extreme right-wing conspiracy theories discounting the seriousness… More
DARE: Trump Decries “Political Violence” after Years of Stoking It
In wake of bomb threats against CNN and public officials, news organizations tighten security and examine the role of the President's rhetoric in fueling tensions. After condemning attempted terror… More
DARE: CNN: Time Warner Building Evacuated Due to Suspicious Package
CNN office in New York is evacuated after receiving a suspicious package (see PEN America statement on the incident here.) As President Trump calls the killing of Washington-based Saudi… More