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  • Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice

    May 5, 2022

    A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing where groups of people visiting the locations came from, how […]

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  • Misinformation may only worsen for Black voters in lead-up to election, experts warn | NBC News

    May 5, 2022

    Expert witnesses have warned members of Congress that misinformation targeting Black voters and other voters of color is likely to intensify as the midterm elections unfold. Joi Chaney, the executive […]

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  • Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok | The Washington Post

    March 31, 2022

    Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok. The campaign […]

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  • The wellness community’s fight over COVID vaccine misinformation | Los Angeles Times

    March 17, 2022

    The vaccination selfie, showing a gloved hand holding a needle and a smiling face hidden behind a mask, looked like thousands of others posted to Instagram as the COVID-19 vaccine […]

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  • Russia Is Having Less Success at Spreading Social Media Disinformation | Scientific American

    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 spreading disinformation. These networks, which were comprised of fabricated accounts […]

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  • Kids are falling victim to disinformation and conspiracy theories. What’s the best way to fix that? | Nieman Journalism Lab

    February 3, 2022

    When Amanda Gardner, an educator with two decades of experience, helped to start a new charter elementary and middle school outside of Seattle last year, she did not anticipate teaching […]

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  • Kazakhstan’s internet shutdown is the latest episode in an ominous trend: digital authoritarianism | The Conversation

    January 25, 2022

    The Kazakhstan government shut off the internet nationwide on Jan. 5, 2022, in response to widespread civil unrest in the country. The unrest started on Jan. 2, after the government […]

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  • This is what it’s like to be a media company’s first-ever online safety editor | Nieman Journalism Lab

    January 20, 2022

    Ask any journalist today — especially a woman, person of color, and anyone else from a marginalized community — about how it feels to be a journalist on the internet […]

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  • Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes | The Conversation

    January 13, 2022

    Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your social media feed? Far from coincidence, these instances of eerily […]

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  • ‎The Harm of Spanish-Language Disinformation | 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 are being targeted online with disinformation. Stephanie Valencia, co-founder and president […]

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