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Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document | VICE
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
April 27, 2022
Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force…
From the Arab Spring to Russian censorship: a decade of internet blackouts and repression | Rest of World
by Peter Guest
April 27, 2022
On February 27, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, radio journalist Valerii Nechay returned to St. Petersburg from a…
New E.U. landmark law targets Big Tech firms over hate speech, disinformation | NBC News
by Nicole Acevedo
April 27, 2022
The European Union reached an agreement Saturday on landmark legislation forcing Big Tech firms such as Google and Facebook's parent company…
Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads | The Washington Post
by Naomi Nix
April 25, 2022
Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking to…
Librarians and Misinformation: Curating the Information Needs of Communities | Shorenstein Center
April 21, 2022
While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to…
Attention, Joe Rogan: Spotify now reserves the right to restrict the reach of misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
April 19, 2022
After Spotify’s Joe Rogan Experience released a widely derided episode that made covid vaccines sound as safe as Russian roulette…
A Twitter takeover would be a global headache for Elon Musk | Rest of World
by Andrew Deck and Michael Zelenko
April 18, 2022
When Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX announced his intention to buy Twitter for $43 billion, his letter…
What to know about disinformation and how to address it | Stanford News
by Melissa De Witte
April 18, 2022
Over the past decade, the spread of disinformation online has become a problem facing the U.S. and the world. Increasingly,…
Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
April 6, 2022
Pinterest announced today it’s becoming the first major digital platform to introduce a comprehensive misinformation policy designed to combat false…