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The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine
by Colin Moynihan
September 6, 2022
“We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with…
Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived | The Verge
by Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton
September 6, 2022
It had been a long pandemic for Twitter’s research team. Tasked with solving some of the platform’s toughest problems around…
Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post
by Maggie Macdonald and Megan A. Brown
August 30, 2022
Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics.…
Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post
by Will Oremus
August 30, 2022
As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding…
Call for Papers: JASIST Special Issue “Healthier Information Ecosystems” | Association for Information Science and Technology
by Author on SourceAssociation for Information Science and Technology
August 30, 2022
This special issue, “Healthier Information Ecosystems,” will focus on the interconnected nature of online pathologies, draw attention to the socio-technical…
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate, Statistical Science | Duke University
by Duke University
August 26, 2022
The Polarization Lab at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to begin immediately. We seek a recent…
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow | Social Science Research Council
by SSRC
August 24, 2022
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to advance the aims of the Mellon-funded Data…
Job Opportunity: ARTT Research Coordinator, Response | Hacks/Hackers
August 18, 2022
Hacks/Hackers is looking for a Project Research Coordinator to help us wrangle research communications and resources for a software prototype…
Job Opportunity: ARTT Research Coordinator, Analysis and Connection | Hacks/Hackers
August 18, 2022
Hacks/Hackers is looking for a Project Research Coordinator to help us wrangle research communications and resources for a software prototype…