Democratic presidential candidates (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Ctrl + NDemocrats regularly blast tech companies for not doing enough to fight disinformation. But several top presidential candidates have yet to commit not to spread falsehoods on social media themselves. “We need more candidates stepping in and speaking against disinformation,” Kanishk Karan, a misinformation researcher at the think tank the Atlantic Council, told ABC News. His campaign did not respond to Tony yesterday about whether he planned to pledge against sharing disinformation. She called on companies to work together and with government to address disinformation, and also to alert users when they're impacted by disinformation campaigns.

Source: Washington Post January 30, 2020 13:59 UTC