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The call with civil-rights leaders came after a spike in antisemitism and racism on Twitter.

A Free Press report shows that tech platforms are ill-prepared for handling political disinformation ahead of the vote.

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has already prompted a slowdown of ad dollars to the much-scrutinized social-media platform.

Free Press Co-CEO Jessica J. González talks to Chicago Tonight about the serious risks to user safety and our democracy that Musk's approach represents.

More than 40 civil-society groups are urging the top Twitter advertisers to suspend their ads if Musk won’t enforce safety standards and community guidelines.

Civil-rights groups are urging Twitter’s top advertisers to suspend their advertising on Twitter if Musk throws out the platform’s content-moderation safeguards.

Free Press’ Nora Benavidez talks to Tech Tank about how to mitigate disinformation efforts targeting Latino voters.

Free Press’ Nora Benavidez, the lead author of a new report, said that tech companies “have failed to clearly update their systems in time for the elections.”

Systemic failures at all of the major social-media companies show how little the platforms care about safeguarding elections, said Free Press.

Facebook and other top social-media networks claim they’ve stepped up moderation and fact-checking in preparation for the midterms. But these efforts are disastrously insufficient.