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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica
by Craig Silverman,Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao, and Anna Klühspies
October 31, 2022
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and…
Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard | Integrity Institute
by Integrity Institute
October 28, 2022
Tracking how social media platforms respond to misinformation is crucial to understanding the risks and dangers that platforms can pose…
Brazilian Official Granted Power to Order Removal of Misinformation Online | The New York Times
by Jack Nicas
October 28, 2022
Brazilian authorities, grappling with a torrent of online misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election, granted the nation’s elections chief…
Moderating Social Media Discourse for a Healthy Democracy | University of Texas
by Josephine Lukito, Kathyrn Kazanas, and Bin Chen
October 28, 2022
The prevalence of hate speech and misinformation on the internet, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, directly harms minority groups that…
TechTank: Can AI Developers Be Incentivized to Debias Their Algorithms? | Lawfare
by Darrell West
October 19, 2022
The prevalence and technical relevance of machine learning algorithms have increased over the years, making predictive decisionmaking tools part of…
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…
Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch
by Taylor Hatmaker
September 15, 2022
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms…
The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers | WIRED
by Justin Sherman
September 6, 2022
On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had filed a landmark lawsuit against data broker Kochava for “selling…
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…