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Job Opportunity: Communications Manager in Princeton, New Jersey | Careers at Princeton University
The Communications Manager at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) serves as the lead for all external and internal…
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause and the media’s role in communicating risk | Columbia Journalism Review
Early yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that the US pause…
Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets” | Knight First Amendment Institute
As denazification and reconstruction efforts ramped up across Germany in the wake of World War II, Germans and occupying Allied…
The anti-vax movement targeting German children | BBC News
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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account | The Guardian
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a…
Misinformation about science in the public sphere | PNAS
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent demand, not just for scientific information and advice, but also for…
Climate change conspiracy memes on Instagram extend across the web | FirstDraft
In September 2020, Facebook (which owns Instagram) committed to “tackling climate misinformation” and announced it would apply warning labels to…
Alessandra Galloni on how to restore trust in news: “Focus ruthlessly on the facts” | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Journalism today is facing two overlapping challenges: one is technological and the other one is political. The technological change is…
How Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths | The Markup
Liberals on Facebook are given one picture of ExxonMobil. To them, the multibillion-dollar oil giant sells itself as turning over…