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Barack Obama Takes On a New Role: Fighting Disinformation | The New York Times
by Steven Lee Myers and Cecilia Kang
April 21, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO — In 2011, President Barack Obama swept into Silicon Valley and yukked it up with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s…
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens | The New Yorker
by Ronan Farrow
April 21, 2022
The parliament of Catalonia, the autonomous region in Spain, sits on the edge of Barcelona’s Old City, in the remains…
European Parliament calls for more action to curb Russian disinformation | POLITICO
by Clothilde Goujard
March 10, 2022
The European Parliament on Wednesday called for more measures to curb Russian disinformation, nearly two weeks after the invasion of…
Russia Is Having Less Success at Spreading Social Media Disinformation | Scientific American
by Sophie Bushwick
March 10, 2022
Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, multiple social media platforms—including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube—announced they had dismantled coordinated networks of accounts…
The danger is still on our devices | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
February 10, 2022
Last month, Calcalist, a business newspaper in Israel, reported that police in the country had used Pegasus, a potent spyware…
An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
February 10, 2022
I sometimes think about what the, oh, 1997 version of me would find most surprising about the news industry of…
Kids are falling victim to disinformation and conspiracy theories. What’s the best way to fix that? | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Melinda Wenner Moyer
February 3, 2022
When Amanda Gardner, an educator with two decades of experience, helped to start a new charter elementary and middle school…
National Butterfly Center in Texas shuts down amid right-wing harassment | NPR
by Sharon Pruitt-Young
February 3, 2022
The butterflies will fly no more — or not in public view, anyway. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas,…
The scientific process, and how to handle misinformation | Columbia Journalism Review
by Mathew Ingram
January 27, 2022
After Donald Trump was elected, in 2016, misinformation—and its more toxic cousin, disinformation—began to feel like an increasingly urgent social…