A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.

The push comes as the country looks to clean up transportation emissions.

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Toyota outsold GM in 2021, marking the first time since 1931 that the Detroit automaker wasn't the best-selling car company in the U.S.

Political groups got so toxic that Facebook formed a task force to police them, but dissolved it weeks before the insurrection, the Washington Post reported.

Jim Green has shaped much of the space agency’s scientific inquiry for decades.

The unfurling of the observatory's giant sun shade is a major milestone for the $10bn mission.

Lobbyists for the social media giant tried to convince Democrats and Republicans that taking action would help the other party, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

KFC restaurants nationwide will add Beyond Meat's plant-based chicken to their menus, starting Monday for a limited time.

DuckDuckGo is a privacy search engine that keeps winning fans. Will it continue in 2022 and will it spur Google to improve its privacy?

Japan's Sony Group Corp plans to launch a company this spring to examine entering the electric vehicle market, looking to harness its strengths in entertainment and sensors to play a bigger role in next-generation mobility.

Tracking connections pre and post COVID also shows the pull of conspiracy groups.

Bitcoin's electricity consumption in 2021 was equivalent to that of the entire country of Argentina, and its popularity continues to grow.

GAF, one of the largest roofing companies in the world, just released a new solar shingle, which it says will be affordable and easy to install.

Good news for fusion energy progress and a new world record for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), or "artifical sun," maintains 70 million degrees Celsius (126 million °F) for 1,056 seconds.

"The secretive collection, sale, and algorithmic manipulation of our personal data by platforms like Facebook must end," said one activist who called it a "primary driver" of the spread of misinformation.

The new salaries were disclosed in an SEC filing.

This 'proof of concept' was meant to show that very long-range, environmentally sustainable battery packs can exist—and ONE, Inc., is about to start building one.

Sweden has created a new government agency dedicated to fighting disinformation, particularly from foreign governments such as Russia, China and Iran.