Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation

Misinformation has bedeviled social media companies for years, and the problem is especially consequential during elections. Are the companies up to the job as the 2022 midterm elections approach?

Héritier Nosso: Immigrant community networks have positive benefits for communities

New arrivals do require Mainers to make a small investment. But the returns make this whole community stronger and better.

Good faith and the honor of partisan election officials used to be enough to ensure trust in voting results – but not anymore

A partisan election system, attacks on election administration and widespread disinformation place the U.S. democracy in a precarious position.

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Power of Faith

These area residents find daily hope and motivation — to help themselves and others — in their faith. In this Christmas season, we offer their stories.

Families worry as heating costs rise and days get colder

Jay family has been preparing for winter by buying 5 gallons of heating oil at a time.

Rainbow fentanyl – the newest Halloween scare

Like clockwork, October crime news is often cast as an ominous sign of what could happen on Halloween.

Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell

If mosquitoes love you, new research suggests it may be because of how you smell

How Russia is using killer drones to vie for supremacy over Ukraine

They are precise, small in size able to engage a target in relatively large numbers like a swarm of wasps

Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly after he was blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts