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Using the F-word: Fascist drift in America | University of Virginia Democracy Initiative
4 days ago
Trump supporters’ storming of the Capitol, as Trump refused to concede his loss in the 2020 presidential election, underscored the…
Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online | Ars Technica
by Kate Cox
December 23, 2020
In the wake of recent allegations against Pornhub and its parent company Mindgeek, senators from both parties have introduced a…
Terrorism Analysts: Right-Wing Conspiracies Are Fueling A ‘Mass Radicalization’ | NPR
by Hannah Allam
December 16, 2020
The widespread embrace of conspiracy and disinformation amounts to a "mass radicalization" of Americans, and increases the risk of right-wing…
The return to old-school methods to sow chaos | First Draft
by Bethan John and Keenan Chen
December 14, 2020
As millions of people around the world were under lockdown this year, social media became a lifeline for many. While…
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…
California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide | Oxford Internet Institute
by Sara Spinks
November 11, 2020
Last Tuesday, voters in California passed Proposition 22, a measure that allows gig companies to hire drivers and couriers as…
Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets | International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
by Nazim Choudhury, Kin Wai Ng, and Adriana Iamnitchi
October 16, 2020
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are critical concerns for researchers in social…
Trolling for Truth on Social Media | Scientific American
by Joan Donovan
October 16, 2020
During the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets with…
She Hunts Viral Rumors About Real Viruses | The New York Times
by Jenny Anderson
October 14, 2020
In late September, Heidi Larson, an anthropologist and the founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project in London, sat on a…