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Under pressure after the Capitol riot, self-styled militias are regrouping around anti-vaxx conspiracy theories | Insider
by Tom Porter
July 15, 2021
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
by Fenwick McKelvey
July 13, 2021
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
by Justin Baragona and Adam Rawnsley
June 29, 2021
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
by Makena Kelly
May 25, 2021
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
by Jeanne Whalen, Craig Timberg, and Eva Dou
May 18, 2021
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
by Tom Dreisbach
April 27, 2021
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
by Victor Pickard
April 22, 2021
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
by Katie Pentney
April 8, 2021
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
by Meredith Conroy
April 6, 2021
There’s little question that the media is one of the least trusted institutions in Republican circles. In the past two…