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American Views 2022: Part 1 | Knight Foundation
by Knight Foundation
October 19, 2022
A robust press is vital to a healthy democracy. But newsrooms need resources to create reliable news that is accessible…
Power, Platforms and Politics: Asian Americans and Disinformation | Asian American Disinformation Table
by Asian American Disinformation Table
October 17, 2022
This report offers a preliminary landscape analysis of mis- and disinformation within and about Asian/Asian American diasporic communities with the…
Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism | Lawfare
by Daniel Byman
September 29, 2022
Technology companies are more active than ever in trying to stop terrorists, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other hateful individuals,…
The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine
by Colin Moynihan
September 6, 2022
“We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with…
Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived | The Verge
by Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton
September 6, 2022
It had been a long pandemic for Twitter’s research team. Tasked with solving some of the platform’s toughest problems around…
Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post
by Maggie Macdonald and Megan A. Brown
August 30, 2022
Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics.…
Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization than social media, study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Homa Hosseinmardi
August 15, 2022
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of…
Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a look back at yellow journalism and the Spanish-American War | PolitiFact
by Louis Jacobson
April 28, 2022
Scroll through social media feeds today and you can expect to be bombarded with dubious claims about Russia’s war in…
Distinct Archetypes of YouTube Politics
April 19, 2022
The following is an essay written by a SSRC Social Data Research Fellow, based on their project. The program was…