Headlines For Nov. 23, 2021​

Taiwan’s digital minister tells Al Jazeera that openness is key to ensuring misinformation does not morph into ‘hatred, vengefulness’.

Online misinformation prompted the health authority to take to social media, dispel frightening rumours. Dr. Anna Wolak says anti-vaccine misinformation is increasingly targetting parents, expectant parents.

Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting under way. Days after Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs Nick Clegg touted the company’s efforts in combating climate misinformation in a blog as the Glasgow summit began, conservative media network Newsmax ran an advertisement on the platform that called man-made global warming a “hoax”.

After more than a week sleeping in a frigid encampment on the border between Belarus and Poland, and an abortive foray across the frontier repelled by pepper spray and police batons, Mr Mohammad Faraj gave up this month and retreated to a warm hotel in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

The U.K. retailer, which sells bath and body products and has a large footprint in Canada, announced its plan Monday to cease posting on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat accounts by Friday. The company, which likened social media to “a dark and dangerous alleyway,” said….