Now’s not the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting disinformation online

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.

In the wake of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, it seemed like big tech companies were taking the fight against disinformation seriously. Social media outlets set up new fact-checking procedures and got more aggressive about banning or blocking pages and profiles that spread disinformation around elections.

Now I’m worried we’re already moving backward with another presidential election just around the corner (somehow).

In November, Twitter laid off a huge …

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