News Item Disinformation goes to Hollywood: four lessons from journalism | First Draft By Whitney Phillips and Claire Wardle on March 18, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item Ethical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research: Considerations in Democratic Contexts | The Carter Center By Connie Moon Sehat and Tarunima Prabhakar, with Aleksei Kaminski on March 15, 2021 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Examining the Roles of Multi-Platform Social Media News Use, Engagement, and Connections with News Organizations and Journalists on News Literacy: A Comparison of Seven Democracies | Digital Journalism By Michael Chan, Francis L.F. Lee, and Hsuan-Ting Chen on March 17, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Credibility and Trust
News Item Twitter is caught between politics and free speech. I was collateral damage. | Columbia Journalism Review By Salil Tripathi on March 12, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item A newspaper has a novel strategy for covering one politician’s falsehoods: Don’t | The Washington Post By Marisa Iati on March 15, 2021
News Item Digital Investigation Recipes | First Draft By First Draft on March 16, 2021 Algorithms and Automation
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