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What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
Parallel Public Spheres: Influence Operations In The 2022 Philippine Elections | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Jonathan Corpus Ong, Rossine Fallorina, Jose Mari Lanuza, Ferdinand Sanchez II, and Nicole Curato
October 28, 2022
This report examines the characteristics and consequences of influence operations in the 2022 presidential election in the Philippines. The report…
Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
by Dam Hee Kim, Anjana Susarla, and Scott Shackelford
October 19, 2022
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post
by Will Oremus
August 30, 2022
As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding…
The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. | The New Yorker
by Sheila Coronel
May 18, 2022
It was 9 P.M., and Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, was pacing back and forth in the newsroom…
Texas social media “censorship” law reinstated by appeals court | The Texas Tribune
by Andrew Zhang
May 12, 2022
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users…
Bongbong Marcos Win Will Mean More Disinformation: Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa | Bloomberg
by Philip Heijmans
May 10, 2022
Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa warned that a win for Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Philippine presidential poll will show the…
Carlson shows why cable news is ideal terrain for election misinformation | The Washington Post
by Philip Bump
May 9, 2022
One of the reasons that Tucker Carlson is successful at what he does is because of where he does it.…
How can we stop fake election news spreading in migrant communities? | The Conversation
by Wilfred Yang Wang
May 3, 2022
Concerns about fake news and misinformation spreading on social media among Chinese communities are once again emerging, as they were…