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Inside Facebook’s Underground COVID Support Network

For many young coronavirus survivors — fighting lingering symptoms, denied proper care and aching for answers — these private groups are the only place to turn

How LinkedIn Became Facebook for Dads

Although it pretends to serve a loftier purpose, LinkedIn is just as full of crap as any other social media platform

Inside the Facebook Meme Groups for Coronavirus Truthers

There’s a different strain of misinformation for everyone — and it all exposes Facebook’s most unsettling blind spot

How Facebook Misinformation Turned a White Supremacist Conspiracy Into Police Action

A rumor about busloads of antifa protestors, sparked by a bogus Twitter account, spurred Chicago Police to shut down highways and send a helicopter to the Indiana border. It was completely false.

The Facebook Prepper Group Trying to Bring Sanity to Coronavirus Panic

U.K. Preppers & Survivalists is correcting the record on the conspiracies and fake DIY hacks Facebook can’t seem to rein in

Nigeria’s Underground Livestock Trade Is Thriving on Facebook

Poultry farming has become so lucrative that many young people have ditched their city jobs — once a key marker of social mobility — to raise and sell chickens full-time