News Item Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism | The Washington Post By Elizabeth Dwoskin on March 14, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Targeted Disinformation
News Item Amazon Is Pushing Readers Down A “Rabbit Hole” Of Conspiracy Theories About The Coronavirus | BuzzFeed News By Craig Silverman and Jane Lytvynenko on March 15, 2021
News Item The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided | The Atlantic By Renée DiResta on March 15, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item The presumed influence of election misinformation on others reduces our own satisfaction with democracy | HKS Misinformation Review By Qin Li on March 12, 2021
News Item What should we do about the algorithmic amplification of disinformation? | Columbia Journalism Review By Mathew Ingram on March 11, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item COVID Skeptics Don’t Just Need More Critical Thinking | Slate By Rebecca Onion on March 11, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can’t fix its misinformation addiction | MIT Technology Review By Karen Hao on March 11, 2021 Algorithms and Automation
News Item How a racialized disinformation campaign ties itself to The 1619 Project | Columbia Journalism Review By Bradi Collins-Dexter and Joan Donovan on March 11, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item Nearly a third of all Republicans say they ‘definitely won’t’ get vaccinated, citing Trump’s Covid falsities | Independent By Chris Riotta on March 9, 2021
News Item Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation | The New York Times By Sheera Frenkel on March 10, 2021 Credibility and Trust