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  • What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab

    October 28, 2022

    Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining. And they sometimes turn out to be true. Today, information […]

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  • American Views 2022: Part 1 | 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 and free from influence. Since 2017, Gallup and the John […]

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  • Power, Platforms and Politics: Asian Americans and Disinformation | 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 aim of strengthening Asian American movement building. Researching and organizing […]

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  • Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism | Lawfare

    September 29, 2022

    Technology companies are more active than ever in trying to stop terrorists, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other hateful individuals, organizations, and movements from exploiting their platforms, but government and […]

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  • The Defunders | Intelligencer, New York Magazine

    September 6, 2022

    “We got Yahoo to kill their Glenn Beck ads,” Nandini Jammi announced during a private video call in February with two colleagues from the group Check My Ads and 20-odd […]

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  • Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived | The Verge

    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 harassment, extremism, and disinformation, staffers absconded to Napa Valley in […]

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  • Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post

    August 30, 2022

    Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics. The media has routinely reported on these falsehoods, making it […]

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  • Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization than social media, study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab

    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 views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. […]

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  • Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a look back at yellow journalism and the Spanish-American War | PolitiFact

    April 28, 2022

    Scroll through social media feeds today and you can expect to be bombarded with dubious claims about Russia’s war in Ukraine. Many were created by or on behalf of Russia, […]

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  • 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 generously funded by the Omidiyar Network. Are we using the […]

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