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  • “They’re Coming to Take over Our Country”: Researching Global Circuits of Racist Misinformation

    April 17, 2023

    Abstract “The others are coming. They are coming to get us, take over our country, colonize us, and replace us. They’re an existential threat.” These types of racist logics are […]

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  • Two years after the Atlanta shootings, equitable coverage of the AAPI community remains elusive | Poynter

    March 16, 2023

    It was a deeply painful time, another violent expression of centuries-old racism against Asians and Asian Americans. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Japanese incarceration camps during WWII […]

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  • Image-Based Abuse: A Threat to Privacy, Safety, and Speech

    March 15, 2023

    Commonly misnamed “revenge porn,” image-based abuse is the non-consensual creation and distribution of private images. Much more than “one-off” attacks that cause hurt feelings, image-based abuse has become a broad effort to silence and shame people in public spaces. This literature review brings together relevant research from the fields of law, communication, psychology, and public health to explain how image-based abuse has become an ever-present threat to privacy, safety, and speech.

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  • Platforms Can Optimize for Metrics Beyond Engagement | WIRED

    March 7, 2023

    Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems are largely driven by predictions of what each […]

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  • Power, Platforms and Politics: Asian Americans and Disinformation | Asian American Disinformation Table

    October 17, 2022

    This report offers a preliminary landscape analysis of mis- and disinformation within and about Asian/Asian American diasporic communities with the aim of strengthening Asian American movement building. Researching and organizing […]

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  • Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times

    October 13, 2022

    Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening again in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections, researchers […]

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  • The book ban movement has a chilling new tactic: harass teachers on social media | MIT Technology Review

    July 21, 2022

    “This is a movement that was formed online, so it’s not so much that these activists are moving online so much as they are moving the target from schools to […]

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  • Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review

    July 7, 2022

    When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood on June 3, 2021, the city was […]

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  • Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India

    June 15, 2022

    In May 2021, during India’s second wave of COVID-19, SQ Masood and his father-in-law were returning home on his silver-coloured motor scooter in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. […]

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  • The Fight to Hold Pornhub Accountable | The New Yorker

    June 15, 2022

    Mickelwait pulled out her laptop, created a dummy e-mail account, and uploaded a video of a darkened corner of her bedroom to Pornhub. It appeared to go live almost instantly. […]

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