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What the Pfizer-approval story says about our media ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
August 26, 2021
In recent weeks, amid broader questions about the surge of the Delta coronavirus variant in the US and the vaccination…
The argument over content moderation is ‘missing context’ | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas
July 22, 2021
President Joe Biden and Facebook’s tête-à-tête over social media companies’ culpability in spreading false information about vaccines raised familiar questions…
Making fact-checking a global practice: towards a common approach to countering disinformation and misinformation | Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
July 15, 2021
Disinformation and misinformation have been broadly recognized among major modern threats. They affect societies and the functioning of democracies all…
Data & Democracy Symposium: Media & Misinformation | Data4Democracy
July 15, 2021
How is social media changing democracy? How are computer algorithms employed to tailor messaging for narrow groups of voters? What…
Toward Contextualizing Not Just Containing Right-Wing Extremisms on Social Media: The Limits of Walled Strategies | Items
by Fenwick McKelvey
July 13, 2021
What if automated takedowns of harmful and hateful content do not work? Or at least, not to the extent proposed…
Three Iraqi women explain how and why they stay anonymous online | Rest of World
by Sofia Barbarani
June 20, 2021
Ever since social media was introduced in Iraq, women here have turned to online anonymity in order to voice their…
The Global News Media Is in Peril—and Democracy Along With It | Foreign Policy
by Michael Moran
May 18, 2021
The drumbeat of writing from journalism institutions, press freedom monitors, and academia about the sorry state of the news business…
Journalism trainees ‘need training’ to handle online abuse | Press Gazette
by Charlotte Tobitt
May 18, 2021
It is “necessary” to better prepare journalism trainees for the realities of increasingly “vile” online abuse they could face, according…
Press freedom: how governments are using COVID as an excuse to crack down on the public’s right to know | London School of Economics
by Sara Torsner and Jackie Harrison
April 22, 2021
A government’s fear of scrutiny and criticism often determines how repressive it is toward the press. The greater the fear,…