Late last week Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review stirred up a mix of interest and outrage among journalists by…
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Under pressure after the Capitol riot, self-styled militias are regrouping around anti-vaxx conspiracy theories | Insider
In the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, so-called militia groups such as the Three Percenters and Oath Keepers…
Toward Contextualizing Not Just Containing Right-Wing Extremisms on Social Media: The Limits of Walled Strategies | Items
What if automated takedowns of harmful and hateful content do not work? Or at least, not to the extent proposed…
YouTube Bans and Then Unbans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies | The Daily Beast
After left-wing media watchdog Right Wing Watch had been informed that its channel had been permanently suspended from YouTube on…
Florida governor signs law to block ‘deplatforming’ of Florida politicians | The Verge
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that bars social media companies like Twitter and Facebook from “knowingly” deplatforming…
Guo Wengui is “linchpin” of sprawling disinformation network, researchers say | The Washington Post
A sprawling online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui has become a potent platform for disinformation in the United…
How Extremists Weaponize Irony To Spread Hate | NPR
On a recent episode of his livestreamed show, the 22-year-old extremist Nick Fuentes repeated a formula that has won him…
Unseeing propaganda: How communication scholars learned to love commercial media | HKS Misinformation Review
In the communication field’s earliest days, scholars devoted much attention to systemic problems, including propaganda-related issues. But curiously, a renewed…
“Decoding Hate” Podcast Series | Decoding Hate
This six-episode podcast series explores the interplay between freedom of expression, hate speech and artificial intelligence (AI). While covering these…
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity | FiveThirtyEight
There’s little question that the media is one of the least trusted institutions in Republican circles. In the past two…