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If a Tree Falls in the Forest: COVID-19, Media Choices, and Presidential Agenda Setting | SSRN
by Masha Krupenkin, Kai Zhu, Dylan Walker, and David M. Rothschild
3 days ago
During a time of crisis Americans turn their attention to the news media for critical information about what to expect,…
Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates | Internet Policy Review
by Tarleton Gillespie, Patricia Aufderheide, Elinor Carmi, Ysabel Gerrard, Robert Gorwa, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Sarah T. Roberts, Aram Sinnreich, and Sarah Myers West
6 days ago
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by…
Butterfly Attack: Operation Blaxit | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brandi Collins-Dexter
7 days ago
Over the course of 3 years, a mix of pranksters and extremists (right wing) launched a butterfly attack campaign as…
Why A Gamer Started A Web Of Disinformation Sites Aimed At Latino Americans | FiveThirtyEight
by Kaleigh Rogers and Jaime Longoria
October 22, 2020
This article was written in collaboration with First Draft, a nonprofit organization that provides investigative research to newsrooms tracking and…
COVID-19 and the politicisation of medical preprints on Twitter: Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Data | Journal of Medical Internet Research
by Aleksandra Urman, Stefania Ionescu, David Garcia, and Anikó Hannák
October 22, 2020
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been willing to share their results quickly to speed up the…
False Political News in Spanish Pits Latino Voters Against Black Lives Matter | The New York Times
by Patricia Mazzei and Jennifer Medina
October 22, 2020
MIAMI — Even by the permissive standards of partisan talk radio, the grave warning from the host of a program…
Butterfly Attack: The Origins of Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Erin Gallagher
October 21, 2020
Throughout 2017, pranksters and extremists utilized parody accounts to discredit the antifascist movement in the US, taking advantage of available…
The Right’s Disinformation Machine Is Hedging Its Bets | The Atlantic
by Renée DiResta
October 21, 2020
In recent months, Facebook and YouTube have moved aggressively to interrupt the flow of disinformation, in part by banning QAnon…
False News and Fact-Checking: Information Flows During a Pandemic and Presidential Election | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics: Election Seminar Series
October 16, 2020
Since the 2016 election, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others have struggled to contain the spread of false and misleading information…