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  • How to tackle political polarization — the researchers trying to bridge divides | Nature

    March 7, 2023

    On 20 October 2020, in the middle of a bitterly contested US election season, there was an unexpected dĂ©tente in Utah. Two opposing candidates for governor, Spencer Cox (a Republican) […]

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  • Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims | Brookings

    February 13, 2023

    On February 2021, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his co-host Michael Knowles, a Daily Wire commentator, recorded a live episode of the Verdict With Ted Cruz podcast. In conversation about […]

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  • How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica

    October 31, 2022

    Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly […]

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  • What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab

    October 28, 2022

    Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining. And they sometimes turn out to be true. Today, information […]

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  • Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation

    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 election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media […]

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  • Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times

    October 13, 2022

    Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening again in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections, researchers […]

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  • 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 powerful generation in recent American history. They dominate cultural and […]

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  • The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine

    September 6, 2022

    “We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with two colleagues from the group Check My Ads and 20-odd […]

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  • Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post

    August 30, 2022

    Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics. The media has routinely reported on these falsehoods, making it […]

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  • Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions? | BBC Sounds

    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 mini series about the impact of QAnon around the world, […]

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