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The Technology 202: Republican Facebook ads targeting Georgia runoff contain disinformation, researchers find | The Washington Post
by Cat Zakrzewski
January 5, 2021
Republican politicians and super PACs have been spreading disinformation in Facebook ads targeting Georgia voters in the critical final days…
Facebook Profits As Users Are Ripped Off By Scam Ads | BuzzFeed News
by Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac
December 11, 2020
Two years ago, a handful of Facebook employees began to raise internal alarms about a series of advertisements appearing in…
Profiting from the Pandemic: Moderating COVID-19 Lockdown Protest, Scam, and Health Disinformation Websites | Oxford Internet Institute
by Yung Au, Phillip N. Howard, and Project Ainita
December 4, 2020
This data memo examines the infrastructural support for controversial COVID-19 websites that (1) protest public health measures such as lockdowns,…
Why The Washington Post ran an ad that claimed the election was rigged | Poynter
by Tom Jones
December 3, 2020
The Washington Post made the questionable decision on Tuesday to run a full-page ad from a private citizen who argued…
“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel | NULab at Northeastern University
November 30, 2020
Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin…
For $25K, you can publish climate denial in The Washington Post | Heated
by Emily Atkin
November 19, 2020
Lawrence Gelman and I both want to prevent mass death. We just disagree on the threat humans face. I think…
State media warning labels can counteract the effects of foreign misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review
by Jack Nassetta and Kimberly Gross
October 30, 2020
Platforms are increasingly using transparency, whether it be in the form of political advertising disclosures or a record of page…
Facebook’s threat to the NYU Ad Observatory is an attack on ethical research | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Andy Sellars
October 30, 2020
Late last week, Facebook sent a legal threat to the NYU Ad Observatory, a research project that collects and studies…
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO
by Nancy Scola
October 29, 2020
On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company’s San…