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What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
by Dam Hee Kim, Anjana Susarla, and Scott Shackelford
October 19, 2022
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times
by Tiffany Hsu
October 13, 2022
Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening…
2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series
September 19, 2022
Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture The Baby Boomers are the largest and most…
The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine
by Colin Moynihan
September 6, 2022
“We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with…
Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post
by Maggie Macdonald and Megan A. Brown
August 30, 2022
Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics.…
Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions? | BBC Sounds
by Mpho Lakaje
August 15, 2022
What happened when a bizarre US-based conspiracy theory surfaced a continent away in Africa? In the second part of Trending’s…
Texas social media “censorship” law reinstated by appeals court | The Texas Tribune
by Andrew Zhang
May 12, 2022
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users…
Obama’s plans to fight disinformation are better than most | The Verge
by Casey Newton
April 25, 2022
A former president of the United States has their pick of big problems to tackle once they leave office. Jimmy…