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Four years after Russian operatives used social media in a bid to exacerbate America’s racial divisions and suppress Black voting, such tactics have spread to a wide range of disinformation […]
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In this installment of the Virality Project, we look at coronavirus-related content on RT en Español, one of the most popular and prolific outlets in RT’s network. We find that, […]
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The power of climate science denial in the UK, thankfully, has been in retreat over the past decade. Nigel Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) may still boast a prime […]
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Event Listing Header Register for the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies/Institute for Research on Male Supremacism virtual conference to join other researchers focused on the right-wing and male supremacism for […]
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Today, we announced a job opening for a brand-new position at Data & Society. We have spent the last six years researching how data-centric technologies and automation affect the world […]
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Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as a coffee […]
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Hate speech online is particularly disturbing for its commonness. This kind of speech is appropriated and shared by ordinary citizens, is used to support open confrontations between nations, and can be approved or encouraged by state governments. But what are the linkages between hate speech and disinformation?
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A social media post has warned African Americans to not participate in the 2020 census. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jeri Green, a senior census advisor at the National Urban […]
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In the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Gallup’s latest research, a solid majority of Americans do not want political campaigns to be able to micro-target them through […]