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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica
by Craig Silverman,Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao, and Anna Klühspies
October 31, 2022
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and…
Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard | Integrity Institute
by Integrity Institute
October 28, 2022
Tracking how social media platforms respond to misinformation is crucial to understanding the risks and dangers that platforms can pose…
Brazilian Official Granted Power to Order Removal of Misinformation Online | The New York Times
by Jack Nicas
October 28, 2022
Brazilian authorities, grappling with a torrent of online misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election, granted the nation’s elections chief…
Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
by Victoria Smith, Jon Bateman, and Dean Jackson
October 28, 2022
As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have…
What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
Moderating Social Media Discourse for a Healthy Democracy | University of Texas
by Josephine Lukito, Kathyrn Kazanas, and Bin Chen
October 28, 2022
The prevalence of hate speech and misinformation on the internet, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, directly harms minority groups that…
From Trump to Kanye and Musk: why are the super-rich buying social media sites? | The Guardian
by Joan Donovan
October 28, 2022
Ever wonder what the richest man in the world buys? Elon Musk, rated No 1 by Forbes on its 2022…
Parallel Public Spheres: Influence Operations In The 2022 Philippine Elections | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Jonathan Corpus Ong, Rossine Fallorina, Jose Mari Lanuza, Ferdinand Sanchez II, and Nicole Curato
October 28, 2022
This report examines the characteristics and consequences of influence operations in the 2022 presidential election in the Philippines. The report…
Born in the fire: What we can learn from how digital publishers in the Global South approach platforms | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Rasmus Klein Nielsen and Federica Cherubini
October 28, 2022
Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we…