News Item Trump’s viral megaphone fueled by Twitter army in lead-up to election | The Washington Post By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg on October 30, 2020 Algorithms and Automation
News Item Meet the Man Who Could Lead the GOP’s War on Platform Moderation | The Verge By Makena Kelly on October 29, 2020 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified | HKS Misinformation Review By Richard Rogers on October 26, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item 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 on October 26, 2020
News Item Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change. | POLITICO By Nancy Scola on October 28, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Joan Donovan: Poorly Regulated Online Spaces, Pandemic Have Contributed To Mainstreaming Of QAnon | Boston Public Radio By Zoe Mathews on October 28, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item To Recognize Misinformation in Media, Teach a Generation While It’s Young | The New York Times By Amy Yee on October 23, 2020
News Item 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 on October 21, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item US election 2020: a toolkit for ‘democracy-worthy’ coverage for journalists | The Conversation By Cristian Vaccari on October 22, 2020
News Item Trump’s FCC wants to rewrite Section 230 and change how social media works | Vox By Sara Morrison on October 16, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
