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Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project | Bloomberg
by Kurt Wagner and Naomi Nix
8 hours ago
Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social…
Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
9 hours ago
Twitter announced today it’s partnering with news organizations The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand its efforts focused on highlighting reliable…
How social media became a deadly trap for a minority group in Pakistan | Rest of World
by Alizeh Kohari
9 hours ago
Last fall, in a corporate office in Lahore, 25-year-old Siraj, a fintech professional just two months into his new job,…
Vaccine Misinformation Is Spreading Among Kids, Too — Especially On Social Media | Wisconsin Public Radio
by Madeline Fox
9 hours ago
Megan Peña considers herself and her family "very pro-vaccine." She said she and her husband got their COVID-19 shots when…
Despair or Defiance? Assessing Turnout Effects of Election Misinformation | OSF
by Jon Green, William Hobbs, Stefan McCabe, and David Lazer
1 day ago
Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including thenPresident Donald Trump, promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Joe Biden’s close…
White House back-channeling with networks on Covid coverage | POLITICO
by Christopher Cadelago
1 day ago
The Biden administration is privately ramping up outreach to major media outlets in hopes of tamping down a spate of…
How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet | Daily Beast
by Robert Silverman
1 day ago
By mid-afternoon of Jan. 4, it had become increasingly clear that a slew of far-right actors were gearing up for…
Putin’s vaccine PR backfires in Latin America | Coda Story
by Mariam Kiparoidze
2 days ago
A recent post on Sputnik V’s Twitter account boasts that Chile has become the 69th country to register the Russian…
Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative | The New York Times
by Lisa Lerer and Nicholas Fandos
2 days ago
In the hours and days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, rattled Republican lawmakers knew exactly who was…