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Massive supply imbalance fueled by vaccine hesitancy: Illinois’ latest struggles with COVID-19 mass vaccination | Chicago Tribune
by Joe Mahr and Dan Petrella
April 20, 2021
In southern Illinois, public health officials struggle to fill coronavirus vaccine appointment slots as the region sits on a three-week…
In war zones, social media disinformation is costing lives | WIRED UK
by Maude Morrison and Adam Cooper
April 20, 2021
When rioters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, social media platforms could no longer deny their role in undermining…
Podcast: The Anti-Vax Files, One woman’s escape from the rabbit hole | BBC World Service
by BBC World Service
April 19, 2021
Catherine didn’t have much to do with mainstream medicine. Social media pushed her down a rabbit hole – but also…
Peru’s surprise presidential front runner has fewer than 8,000 Twitter followers | Rest of World
by Jimena Legard
April 16, 2021
When CNN announced the results for the first round of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, April 11, the image they…
Reimagine the Internet | Knight First Amendment Institute
April 15, 2021
Reimagine the Internet is a virtual conference co-hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the soon-to-be-launched…
Call for Papers: Fourth Annual Conference of Politics and Computational Social Science | PaCSS
by Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS)
April 15, 2021
The conference of Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) will take place virtually during the week of August 19-13, 2021.…
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
April 13, 2021
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
How Newsrooms, Journalists, and Their Peers Can Combat Online Violence | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Elisa Lees Munoz
April 13, 2021
By now, those of us working in news media know what online violence looks like. It manifests as sexist abuse,…
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens | The Guardian
by Julia Carrie Wong
April 12, 2021
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite…