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Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online | Ars Technica
by Kate Cox
December 23, 2020
In the wake of recent allegations against Pornhub and its parent company Mindgeek, senators from both parties have introduced a…
The Campaign Against the Vaccines Is Already Under Way | The Atlantic
by Renee DiResta
December 22, 2020
Today’s anti-vaccine activists, however, enjoy a speed, scale, and reach far greater than those of Dr. Bond’s day. Bottom-up networked…
WHO accused of conspiring with Italy to remove damning Covid report | The Guardian
by Angela Giuffrida
December 11, 2020
The World Health Organization has been accused of conspiring with the Italian health ministry to remove a report revealing the…
Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origins on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame | HKS Misinformation Review
by Kaiping Chen, Anfan Chen, Jingbo Meng, Cuihua Shen, and Jingwen Zheng
December 11, 2020
This paper studies conspiracy and debunking narratives about the origins of COVID-19 on a major Chinese social media platform, Weibo, from…
Opinion | Biden can’t end GOP denialism, but Fox News might | The Washington Post
by Jennifer Rubin
December 9, 2020
When I see polling that 80 percent or more of Republicans do not believe that President-elect Joe Biden won the…
‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies | University of Michigan News
by Ram Sundara Raman, Prerana Shenoy, Katharina Kohls & Roya Ensafi
November 20, 2020
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s…
Inside Parler, the Right’s Favorite ‘Free Speech’ App | WIRED
by Arielle Pardes
November 13, 2020
There are only two rules on Parler, the “free-speech” social network: First, nothing criminal. Second, no spam. Other than that,…
Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
November 3, 2020
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to…
FCC will move to regulate social media after censorship outcry | The Verge
by Makena Kelly
October 16, 2020
On Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said that the agency will seek to regulate social media platforms like…