News Item How Li-Meng Yan’s challenged claims about China and covid went viral | The Washington Post By Craig Timberg on February 12, 2021
News Item The COVID States Project #39: Public attitudes towards the storming of the Capitol building | OSF Preprints By David Lazer et al. on February 15, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kid Gloves by Facebook | The Markup By Jon Keegan, Colin Lecher, and Corin Faife on February 16, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How India’s Government is Weaponizing Twitter | Columbia Journalism Review By Maddy Crowell on February 16, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance Targeted Disinformation
News Item Authoritarian Regimes Could Exploit Cries of ‘Deepfake’ | WIRED By Sam Gregory on February 14, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role | Associate Press By Erika Kinetz on February 15, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item Fox’s effort to clean up its post-election misinformation is not terribly convincing | The Washington Post By Philip Bump on February 9, 2021
News Item Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA | Nature Human Behaviour By Sahil Loomba, Alexandre de Figueiredo, Simon J. Piatek, Kristen de Graaf & Heidi J. Larson on February 5, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item Orthodox Jews Confront Misinformation In Vaccine Efforts | Spectrum News NY1 By Ari Ephraim Feldman on February 10, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump’s policies | The Guardian By Amanda Holpuch on February 11, 2021 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance