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…
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The Fight to Hold Pornhub Accountable | The New Yorker
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
June 15, 2022
Mickelwait pulled out her laptop, created a dummy e-mail account, and uploaded a video of a darkened corner of her…
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice
by Joseph Cox
May 5, 2022
A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing…
Misinformation may only worsen for Black voters in lead-up to election, experts warn | NBC News
by Donna M. Owens
May 5, 2022
Expert witnesses have warned members of Congress that misinformation targeting Black voters and other voters of color is likely to…
Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok | The Washington Post
by Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell
March 31, 2022
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide…
The wellness community’s fight over COVID vaccine misinformation | Los Angeles Times
by Laura J. Nelson
March 17, 2022
The vaccination selfie, showing a gloved hand holding a needle and a smiling face hidden behind a mask, looked like…
Russia Is Having Less Success at Spreading Social Media Disinformation | Scientific American
by Sophie Bushwick
March 10, 2022
Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, multiple social media platforms—including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube—announced they had dismantled coordinated networks of accounts…
Kids are falling victim to disinformation and conspiracy theories. What’s the best way to fix that? | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Melinda Wenner Moyer
February 3, 2022
When Amanda Gardner, an educator with two decades of experience, helped to start a new charter elementary and middle school…
Kazakhstan’s internet shutdown is the latest episode in an ominous trend: digital authoritarianism | The Conversation
by Margaret Hu
January 25, 2022
The Kazakhstan government shut off the internet nationwide on Jan. 5, 2022, in response to widespread civil unrest in the…
This is what it’s like to be a media company’s first-ever online safety editor | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Hanaa' Tameez
January 20, 2022
Ask any journalist today — especially a woman, person of color, and anyone else from a marginalized community — about…