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Focus Tag: Demographic Targeting
Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes | The Conversation
by Jeanna Matthews
January 13, 2022
Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your…
The Harm of Spanish-Language Disinformation | The Takeaway
by The Takeaway
December 10, 2021
In 2020, Latinx voters registered and voted in record numbers, now making them the second largest voting bloc in the U.S. Many of these voters…
Trollfare: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign During Military Conflict in Ukraine | International Journal of Communication
by Larissa Doroshenko and Josephine Lukito
December 1, 2021
In this study, we explore online informational warfare by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) against Ukraine during the military…
Gender, Political Persuasion, and Social Media: A Field Experiment During the 2020 Democratic Primary | Network Science Institute
November 29, 2021
Research indicates women have less influence than men in a variety of professional settings, including politics. We conducted a field…
For scores of years, newspapers printed hate, leading to racist terror lynchings and massacres of Black Americans | The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
by DeNeen L. Brown
October 21, 2021
For decades, hundreds of white-owned newspapers across the country incited the racist terror lynchings and massacres of thousands of Black…
Facebook’s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say | The Guardian
by Aisha Gani
October 19, 2021
On a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more…
Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa | Africa Center for Strategic Studies
by Africa Center for Strategic Studies
October 7, 2021
From Asmara to Abuja, Sudan to South Africa, digital disinformation is becoming an increasingly common feature of Africa’s domestic political…
Jordan’s government used secretly recorded Clubhouse audio to spread disinformation | Rest of World
by Vittoria Elliott
July 14, 2021
When Clubhouse started taking off earlier this year, some users worried that sensitive conversations on the social audio app might…
The Future of Platform Accountability: Research, Ethics, and Racial Justice | NetGain Partnership
July 6, 2021
A discussion on how platform research to address mis/disinformation should be approached through a race-based lens, new platform research solutions…