News Item Fringe communities feed on RT coverage to undermine Covid-19 vaccinations | First Draft By Seb Cubbon on March 17, 2021 Algorithms and Automation
News Item Use of bot and content flags to limit the spread of misinformation among social networks: a behavior and attitude survey | Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal By Candice Lanius, Ryan Weber, and William I. MacKenzie Jr. on March 12, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
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 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 Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation | The New York Times By Sheera Frenkel on March 10, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item The Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation | The New Yorker By Anna Russell on March 10, 2021
News Item Understanding vulnerability to online misinformation | The Alan Turing Institute By Bertie Vidgen, Harry Taylor, Myrto Pantazi, Zoe Anastasiou, Becky Inkster, and Helen Margetts on March 8, 2021