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  • Trollfare: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign During Military Conflict in Ukraine | International Journal of Communication

    December 1, 2021

    In this study, we explore online informational warfare by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) against Ukraine during the military conflict in Donbass. Introducing a digital dimension to the long-standing […]

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  • 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 experiment on a social media platform where Democrats were randomly […]

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  • For scores of years, newspapers printed hate, leading to racist terror lynchings and massacres of Black Americans | The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

    October 21, 2021

    For decades, hundreds of white-owned newspapers across the country incited the racist terror lynchings and massacres of thousands of Black Americans. In their headlines, these newspapers often promoted the brutality […]

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  • Facebook’s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say | The Guardian

    October 19, 2021

    On a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more than 140 Facebook posts from Ethiopia that contain hate speech. […]

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  • Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa | 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 landscape. These efforts adopt sophisticated tactics first deployed in Africa […]

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  • Cindy Ma

    July 22, 2021

    Cindy Ma is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford doing work on the discourse of white supremacy online, with a focus on YouTube personalities and their audiences. Her […]

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  • Jordan’s government used secretly recorded Clubhouse audio to spread disinformation | Rest of World

    July 14, 2021

    When Clubhouse started taking off earlier this year, some users worried that sensitive conversations on the social audio app might be secretly recorded for nefarious purposes. In places like Saudi […]

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  • 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 and methods being pioneered and utilized by researchers of color, […]

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  • On One Native American Reservation, Vaccine Hesitancy Has Long Historical Roots | The Nation

    July 2, 2021

    “Mass sterilization to most people is just an event,” Remi Bald Eagle told me recently, holding back tears. “But to us, that’s family that never made it here.” The sterilization […]

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  • The Airwaves of Navajo Nation | The Verge

    June 25, 2021

    Google Optimize KTNN radio station’s headquarters in St. Michaels, Arizona is less than ten minutes away from the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, but its reach encompasses all 27,000 […]

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