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The new year brought new dimensions to the ongoing conversation on the power platforms have in hosting and shaping public discourse. When some people blamed social media companies for the […]
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Facebook, the election, the insurrection: A conversation with Avaaz’s Fadi Quran | Tech Policy Press
This week Avaaz- a global activist organization that focuses on issues such as democratic values, human rights, and poverty- released a new report: Facebook: From Election to Insurrection: How Facebook […]
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In December 2020, a 4chan user joined a heated discussion around the newly rolled-out Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, warning that international health organizations “sneaked a little bit of sterilization into vaccines.” […]
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The proliferation of misinformation in social media has raised concerns on the veracity of news that citizens consume. Recent scholarship has therefore emphasized the importance of news literacy as higher […]
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How to go beyond the search bar with a deeper level of social media analysis. This series aims to take misinformation off the menu by revealing the secret ingredients of […]
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Facebook is conducting a vast behind-the-scenes study of doubts expressed by U.S. users about vaccines, a major project that attempts to probe and teach software to identify the medical attitudes […]
