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Facebook banned Trump. Leaders who say worse often go unpunished | Los Angeles Times
by Shashank Bengali
5 days ago
Singapore - A political leader uses social media to spread misinformation and hate. Followers are spurred to violence. People are…
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection | WIRED
by Roger McNamee
January 8, 2021
President Trump and his enablers in government and right-wing media will shoulder the blame for Wednesday’s insurrection at the US…
South Africa’s inability to honestly confront AIDS shows the dangers of America’s COVID-19 denialism | The Conversation
by Renee Schatteman
December 23, 2020
At a time when the U.S. is experiencing one of the worst COVID-19 infection rates among wealthy nations, Americans could…
African-American Resistance to the COVID-19 Vaccine Reflects a Broader Problem | The New Yorker
by Jelani Cobb
December 21, 2020
Back in March, when the pall of the pandemic hung over the city, and long stretches of Broadway were as…
Facebook and YouTube are losing the Covid-19 vaccine misinformation fight | Vox
by Rebecca Heilweil
December 21, 2020
Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about…
11 laws and bills against disinformation in Latin America | Latin American Journalism Review
by Júlio Lubianco
December 18, 2020
As in the rest of the world, in Latin America, disinformation and fake news on the Internet spread rapidly and…
Local news attention at low ebb after election; few say it spread misinformation or division | Knight Foundation
by Jeff Jones
December 17, 2020
In a year full of intense news cycles, Americans’ media diets have fluctuated dramatically. Current attention levels to local news…
Tech firms fall short on misinformation targeting Latino voters, advocates say | TheHill
by Rebecca Klar
November 19, 2020
Lapses in tech companies’ policies to address Spanish content led to a proliferation of misinformation targeting Latino voters around Election…
How to Defeat Disinformation | Foreign Affairs
by Nina Jankowicz
November 19, 2020
The 2016 U.S. presidential election propelled the threat of disinformation to the forefront of public debate. Americans were shocked by…