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Focus Tag: Content Moderation
Older people and Republicans are most likely to share Covid-19 stories from fake news sites on Twitter | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
10 hours ago
Since March, a group of scholars from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern have been working to understand how social behaviors…
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO
by Nancy Scola
10 hours ago
On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company’s San…
Joan Donovan: Poorly Regulated Online Spaces, Pandemic Have Contributed To Mainstreaming Of QAnon | Boston Public Radio
by Zoe Mathews
11 hours ago
Joan Donovan, research director for Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, said Wednesday that our increasingly…
To Recognize Misinformation in Media, Teach a Generation While It’s Young | The New York Times
by Amy Yee
3 days ago
The Instagram post looked strange to Amulya Panakam, a 16-year-old high school student who lives near Atlanta. In February, a…
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
7 days ago
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by…
US election 2020: a toolkit for ‘democracy-worthy’ coverage for journalists | The Conversation
by Cristian Vaccari
7 days ago
As election day approaches in the US, journalists around the world are working in the most challenging environment of their…
Trump’s FCC wants to rewrite Section 230 and change how social media works | Vox
by Sara Morrison
October 20, 2020
The Trump administration is once again trying to force social media platforms to do its bidding. This time, the Federal…
Troll Watch: How Tech Is Cracking Down On Election Disinformation | NPR
by Michel Martin & Camille Francois
October 19, 2020
On the same day this week that YouTube said it would remove more, quote, "conspiracy theory content used to justify…
Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser
October 19, 2020
When Twitter banned, and then unbanned, links to a questionably sourced New York Post article about Joe Biden’s son Hunter,…