MediaWell: Live research from the digital edges of democracy

by Rachael Rettner

24 hours ago

From the idea that drinking bleach can kill the coronavirs to a theory that the virus was created in a…

by Saim Saeed

2 days ago

Facebook on Tuesday said it updated its hate speech policy to include a ban on images of blackface and anti-Semitic tropes. The…

by Rebecca Heilweil

2 days ago

About 100 female lawmakers from across the world have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl…

by Noam Cohen

3 days ago

In an aggressive move that is anything but sitting back, a panel of Wikipedia administrators in July declared that Fox…

by Ari Sen & Brandy Zadrozny

3 days ago

An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support…

by Wendell Potter

5 days ago

In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about their health care. I…

by Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac

5 days ago

After months of debate and disagreement over the handling of inflammatory or misleading posts from Donald Trump, Facebook employees want…

by Laura Hazard Owen

August 7, 2020

It’s time to rethink engagement metrics, say the authors of a paper published last week in the Harvard Kennedy School’s…

by Red Herring

August 6, 2020

Social media platform WhatsApp has launched a new feature it hopes will make discourse more truthful. “Search the web” allows…

by Robert Peck

August 5, 2020

On March 22, 2017, at 2:40 pm local time, a terrorist attacked pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London with a…