News Item Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes | The Conversation By Jeanna Matthews on January 12, 2022
News Item YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say | The Guardian By Dan Milmo on January 12, 2022 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
Citation Enhancing Public Resistance to “Fake News” Author: Mayorga, Marcus W.; Hester, Erin B.; Helsel, Emily; Ivanov, Bobi; Sellnow, Timothy L.; Slovic, Paul; Burns, William J.; Frakes, Dale Year: 2020
Citation The Psychology of Fake News Author: Pennycook, Gordon; Rand, David G. Publication: Trends in Cognitive Sciences Year: 2021
Citation Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention Author: Pennycook, Gordon; McPhetres, Jonathon; Zhang, Yunhao; Lu, Jackson G.; Rand, David G. Publication: Psychological Science Year: 2020
News Item The anti-muslim Bulli Bai app is just the latest in GitHub’s list of moderation failures in India | Rest of World By Nilesh Christopher on January 6, 2022 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Rampant caste-based harassment means Dalits like me are silenced on social media | Rest of World By Suprakash Majumdar on January 4, 2022 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find | The New York Times By Stuart A. Thompson on January 4, 2022
News Item Disinformation fueled 2021, and 2022 will likely see the same | NPR By Miles Parks and Geoff Brumfiel on January 2, 2022
Event Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication February 24, 2022 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
