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News Item Is Deplatforming Enough To Fight Disinformation And Extremism? | NPR By All Things Considered Podcast on January 25, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Prevalence of Health Misinformation on Social Media: Systematic Review | Journal of Medical Internet Research By Victor Suarez-Lledo and Javier Alvarez-Galvez on January 20, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Twitter’s Birdwatch pilot is an experiment in using crowdsourcing to police misinformation | The Washington Post By Elizabeth Dwoskin on January 25, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Countering Disinformation and Hate Speech Online: Regulation and User Behavioural Change | Observer Research Foundation By Archit Lohani on January 25, 2021 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation | Scientific American By Corbin Hiar on January 22, 2021
News Item Too little, too late: social media companies’ failure to tackle vaccine misinformation poses a real threat | The BMJ By Claire Wardle and Eric Singerman on January 21, 2021
News Item Platforms are cracking down hard on political misinformation, but it’s still easy to find | Vox By Rebecca Heilweil on January 20, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t. | The Markup By Leon Yin and Alfred Ng on January 19, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance