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In June this year, Reddit began a huge campaign to remove hateful content from its site, blocking communities that engaged in hate speech and harassment. In an update on its […]
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The world’s biggest social network, saying it was expanding its policy on perceived risks to public safety, also imposed restrictions on the remaining 1,950 public and private QAnon groups it […]
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The surfeit of misinformation online during the pandemic has prompted some governments to implement extraordinary measures in an attempt to establish control amid the chaos. Criminalizing the dissemination of “false […]
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A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN belongs to one of the least remarkable categories of Instagram content: visually unchallenging, […]
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The search for trusted information in a crisis exposes the architecture of power at the intersection of media, society and government — and it’s not what it used to be. […]
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Millions of Americans have voted by mail securely for more than 150 years, with fraud historically being so rare that election officials wouldn’t even consider it significant enough to be […]
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Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, “trust” was a key concept for governments as they asked citizens to make a leap of faith into an increasingly digital and data-driven society. […]
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Facebook on Tuesday said it updated its hate speech policy to include a ban on images of blackface and anti-Semitic tropes. The company said it changed its standards to “more specifically account […]
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Relatively high interest in politics / very low trust in politicians:around three-quarters of people haveat least some interest in politics but over four-fifths of people have no or not very […]
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As part of Full Fact’s work on the 2019 general election, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Full Fact commissioned BritainThinks to conduct mixed-methodology research to understand the public’s attitudes towards […]