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Unfair fight: small businesses vs. disinformation

Misleading information in maps and listings can endanger local businesses. Creative policies are needed to prevent serious damage.

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A Credit Karma advertisement appears with coronavirus content published by a white supremacist forum, called “the first major hate site on the Internet” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (Screenshot by Lucas Wright).

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A Wayfair advertisement appears alongside a conspiracy theory around the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus (Screenshot by Lucas Wright).

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How brands unwittingly fund disinformation

In order to reduce the total amount of disinformation online, it would need to be a less profitable endeavor.

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