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Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show | ProPublica
by Craig Silverman, Craig Timberg, Jeff Kao, and Jeremy B. Merrill
January 6, 2022
Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and the…
Social media companies beef up promises, but still fall short on climate disinformation | Fortune
by Marianna Cerini
December 22, 2021
During the second week of COP26 in Glasgow, the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN)—a coalition of more than 70 organizations—issued an…
Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review
by Sahar Massachi
December 20, 2021
Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. It’s the greatest city…
How China Uses Contractors to Spread Propaganda on Facebook and Twitter | The New York Times
by Muyi Xiao, Paul Mozur and Gray Beltran
December 20, 2021
Flood global social media with fake accounts used to advance an authoritarian agenda. Make them look real and grow their…
Islamic extremists sidestep Facebook’s content police | POLITICO
by Mark Scott
December 20, 2021
Photos of beheadings, extremist propaganda and violent hate speech related to Islamic State and the Taliban were shared for months…
A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France | Center for Democracy & Technology
December 15, 2021
A newly released report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in…
Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists. | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Will Oremus, Craig Timberg and Nitasha Tiku
December 14, 2021
Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces, its new live audio chat feature, some employees asked how…
European regulation of online disinformation may be a “game changer” in 2022 | Columbia Journalism Review
by Anya Schiffrin
December 10, 2021
After several years of asking the tech giants to regulate themselves on mis/disinformation and a range of other topics, the…
Michigan school shooting shows how violence can transition from online threats to real-world tragedy | The Conversation
by Mia Bloom and Volkan Topalli
December 8, 2021
[...] It is, perhaps, easy to look back at the postings of a mass shooter after the event and highlight…