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Job Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Digital News | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
6 days ago
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated post-doctoral researcher as part of a larger project aimed at the…
How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation | Harvard Business Review
by Joan Donovan
6 days ago
Over the last four years, disinformation has become a global watchword. After Russian meddling on social networks during the 2016…
Capitol coup should be a wake-up call to brands about disinformation | Fast Company
by Jeff Beer
January 11, 2021
Consumer activist Nandini Jammi, cofounder of Sleeping Giants and Check My Ads, says that marketers have spent entirely too much…
‘Not all Trump supporters’: Conservative media tries to shift blame, cast doubt on identities of Capitol invaders | The Washington Post
by Jeremy Barr
January 7, 2021
Conservative radio host Mark Levin lambasted the Trump supporters who breached the U.S. Capitol building and shut down the electoral…
Tractors to Twitter: India’s protesting farmers battle on highway, online | Reuters
by Devjyot Ghoshal & Manoj Kumar
January 6, 2021
SINGHU, India - In a standoff between farmers from India’s northern breadbasket and the government that has convulsed the country,…
What we think we know and what we want to know: perspectives on trust in news in a changing world | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
December 3, 2020
Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten…
The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based journalists must do about it. | The Washington Post
by Margaret Sullivan
November 23, 2020
President Trump didn’t create the media cesspool that he’ll bequeath to a troubled nation. He just made it exponentially worse…
Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It | Scientific American
by Filippo Menczer and Thomas Hills
November 19, 2020
Consider Andy, who is worried about contracting COVID-19. Unable to read all the articles he sees on it, he relies…
IDeaS Institute and Conference | Center for Informed Democracy & Social – cybersecurity (IDeaS) – Carnegie Mellon University
November 18, 2020
2020 has been a year marked by worldwide crises and changes, including a global pandemic, efforts to increase social justice,…