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Hate and harassment have proliferated online in recent years, posing serious threats to college and university faculty. Women, BIPOC, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community continue to be disproportionately targeted […]
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Last Tuesday, voters in California passed Proposition 22, a measure that allows gig companies to hire drivers and couriers as independent contractors, rather than as employees. A bill passed in […]
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Twitter is working to expand the use of its “misinformation” labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature, not yet live, that would pop up a “misleading information” […]
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A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has been shown […]
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On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse | The New York Times
That gust of wind you felt coming from Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning was the social media industry’s tentative sigh of relief. For the last four years, executives at Facebook, […]
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The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of […]
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Neither disinformation nor voter intimidation is anything new. But tools developed by leading tech companies including Twitter, Facebook and Google now allow these tactics to scale up dramatically. As a […]
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — We know how search engines can favor certain results and how social media might push us into bubbles, but it’s still easy to view the internet as […]
