News Item Censored Contagion II: A Timeline of Information Control on Chinese Social Media During COVID-19 | The Citizen Lab By Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Jakub Dalek, Jeffrey Knockel, Nicola Lawford, Caroline Wesley, and Mari Zhou on August 25, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How should student newsrooms handle political ads? | Poynter By Eliana Miller & Nicole Asbury on August 25, 2020
News Item Facebook, Nextdoor and Reddit unpaid moderators struggle to manage divided communities | The Washington Post By Heather Kelly on August 25, 2020
News Item Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Election Results Doubts | The New York Times By Mike Isaac & Sheera Frenkel on August 21, 2020
News Item Do social media companies censor political speech? A majority of Americans think so. | Vox By Shirin Ghaffary on August 19, 2020 Credibility and Trust
News Item How social media platforms could flatten the curve of dangerous misinformation | Slate & The Free Speech Project By Ellen P. Goodman and Karen Kornbluh on August 20, 2020
News Item Reddit reports 18 percent reduction in hateful content after banning nearly 7,000 subreddits | The Verge By James Vincent on August 21, 2020 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Facebook removes hundreds of QAnon groups, citing public safety risks | Reuters By Joseph Menn on August 21, 2020 Credibility and Trust
News Item Governing Platforms after COVID-19 | Centre for International Governance Innovation By Ben Scott & Taylor Owen on August 18, 2020 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance