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Cuban memers are using sarcasm to avoid jail time | Rest of World
by Lillian Perlmutter
3 days ago
As the pandemic rages in Cuba, many on the island have been finding it difficult to afford basic goods. Hundreds…
“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself | Ars Technica
by Ax Sharma
4 days ago
For two years, he ran websites and Facebook groups that spread bogus stories, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. Under him was…
John Oliver on digital misinformation: ‘There needs to be more public pressure on platforms’ | The Guardian
by Guardian staff
October 13, 2021
John Oliver devoted this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight to the issue of digital misinformation and the havoc it…
It’s not too late to regulate deepfakes | Coda Story
by Martina Biino
October 11, 2021
From an app that allows users to swap images of women and men into pornographic videos to the use of…
It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda. | The Atlantic
by Renée DiResta
October 11, 2021
One Sunday morning in July of last year, a message from an anonymous account appeared on “Bernie or Vest,” a…
Amazon profits from coronavirus conspiracies | Coda Story
by Erica Hellerstein
October 8, 2021
On Monday morning, I was chatting with a friend on WhatsApp when my messages abruptly stopped sending. A massive global…
Call for Papers: Social Media + Society | SAGE Journals
by Sage
October 8, 2021
Call for Papers Political Influencers Special Issue Editors: Martin J. Riedl (University of Texas-Austin), Josephine Lukito (University of Texas-Austin) and…
Dr. Casey Fiesler (Colorado Boulder) on Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech | Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center
October 8, 2021
Hardly a day passes without a new technology ethics scandal--from privacy violations on social media platform to biased algorithms to…
Lessons from the First Internet Ages Symposium | Knight Foundation
October 6, 2021
What is the future of the Internet? Thirty years after the creation of the first web page, what have we…