Bob Garfield

The Real Facebook Oversight Board's fight to address harms not covered by antitrust law. 

The antitrust case against Facebook.

In Pittsburgh, Father Paul Abernathy is working to recruit vaccine trial participants in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

Science communication in an age of disinformation.

The election fraud conspiracy theory helping Trumpworld convert conservative outrage into ca$h.

Facebook has tried to shut down the major anti-vax pages. Why it might be too little, too late.

Political leaders have failed to consistently explain the science behind their pandemic policies. 

Gnosticism can help us understand the pseudo-intellectualism on the right.

To document history or provide PR fodder for the government?

What Parler & MeWe, new "free speech" platforms, tell us about the future of the far-right.

Democracy has had its say. But Trump and his supporters are trying to drown it out with their own version of reality.

The "steal" the President's supporters hope to stop is a lie. It would also be improbably, impossibly difficult. 

An argument for abolishing election forecast models.

America is more polarized than ever. How did we get to this place — and how can we get out of it?

On the never-ending story of Republicans "fleeing the ship," "whispering," "signaling a break," and "distancing themselves from Trump." 

A look at Russian influencing campaigns and a homegrown network of "pink slime" local news sites.

Political consulting and dirty tricks as we know them today can be traced back to a single race — in 1934.