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  • U.S. States Will Dominate Tech Policy This Year and Next | Tech Policy Press

    February 9, 2023

    Earlier this month, President Joe Biden published an op-ed calling for Congress to pass sweeping new legislation regulating technology platforms. Despite this push from the president, the chances of significant […]

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  • Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard | Integrity Institute

    October 28, 2022

    Tracking how social media platforms respond to misinformation is crucial to understanding the risks and dangers that platforms can pose to democratic elections. At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking […]

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  • What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab

    October 28, 2022

    Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining. And they sometimes turn out to be true. Today, information […]

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  • Parallel Public Spheres: Influence Operations In The 2022 Philippine Elections | Media Manipulation Casebook

    October 28, 2022

    This report examines the characteristics and consequences of influence operations in the 2022 presidential election in the Philippines. The report makes three main claims. […] Source: Parallel Public Spheres: Influence […]

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  • Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation

    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 election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media […]

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  • Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post

    August 30, 2022

    As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding what could be a wild card. But it’s one the […]

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  • The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. | The New Yorker

    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 of Rappler, the news site she co-founded a decade ago. […]

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  • Texas social media “censorship” law reinstated by appeals court | The Texas Tribune

    May 12, 2022

    A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users over their political viewpoints. The decision hands a win to […]

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  • Bongbong Marcos Win Will Mean More Disinformation: Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa | Bloomberg

    May 10, 2022

    Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa warned that a win for Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Philippine presidential poll will show the continued potency of misinformation campaigns that could have implications in […]

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  • Carlson shows why cable news is ideal terrain for election misinformation | The Washington Post

    May 9, 2022

    One of the reasons that Tucker Carlson is successful at what he does is because of where he does it. Carlson hosts a television show on a cable-news network that […]

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