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Peru’s surprise presidential front runner has fewer than 8,000 Twitter followers | Rest of World
by Jimena Legard
3 days ago
When CNN announced the results for the first round of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, April 11, the image they…
Chris Bail + Jonathan Haidt: Breaking the Social Media Prism | The Strand Book Store
3 days ago
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online--and how we might yet defeat political tribalism…
Measuring the news and its impact on democracy | PNAS
by Duncan J. Watts, David M. Rothschild, and Markus Mobius
4 days ago
Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has generated…
Facebook has beefed up its ‘oversight board’, but any new powers are illusory | The Guardian
by Emily Bell
4 days ago
Any day now the Facebook Oversight Board, the social media company’s review mechanism for decisions on deletion of content and…
Reimagine the Internet | Knight First Amendment Institute
4 days ago
Reimagine the Internet is a virtual conference co-hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the soon-to-be-launched…
Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets” | Knight First Amendment Institute
by John Bowers, Elaine Sedenberg, and Jonathan Zittrain
4 days ago
As denazification and reconstruction efforts ramped up across Germany in the wake of World War II, Germans and occupying Allied…
“Decoding Hate” Podcast Series | Decoding Hate
by Katie Pentney
April 8, 2021
This six-episode podcast series explores the interplay between freedom of expression, hate speech and artificial intelligence (AI). While covering these…
Can A.I. help Facebook cure its disinformation problem? | Fortune
by Jeremy Kahn
April 6, 2021
In addition to testing American democracy, November’s election and the subsequent storming of the U.S. Capitol put social media to the test. Facebook and its rivals have spent…
In a Pennsylvania town, a Facebook group fills the local news void | NBC News
by Brandy Zadrozny
April 6, 2021
The day after Thanksgiving 2019, residents of Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania, watched from their windows as state and local police combed…