News Item Many Chinese COVID-19 conspiracies blame U.S. for the virus | Fast Company By Kaiping Chen on February 1, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item Social media ‘influencer’ charged with spreading 2016 election disinformation | POLITICO By Cristiano Lima on January 27, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper | OneZero By Will Oremus on January 27, 2021 Credibility and Trust Targeted Disinformation
News Item Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation | Scientific American By Corbin Hiar on January 22, 2021
News Item Too little, too late: social media companies’ failure to tackle vaccine misinformation poses a real threat | The BMJ By Claire Wardle and Eric Singerman on January 21, 2021
News Item ‘They Have Not Legitimately Won’: Pro-Trump Media Keeps the Disinformation Flowing | The New York Times By Jeremy W. Peters on January 20, 2021
News Item Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t. | The Markup By Leon Yin and Alfred Ng on January 19, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item The DC Riot Is the Sandy Hook of the Disinformation Crisis | WIRED By Philip M. Napoli on January 14, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance Targeted Disinformation
News Item Job Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Digital News | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism By Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism on January 14, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item “Down the Rabbit Hole” of Vaccine Misinformation on YouTube: Network Exposure Study | Journal of Medical Internet Research By Lu Tang, Kayo Fujimoto, Muhammad Amith, Rachel Cunningham, Rebecca A Constantini, Felicia York, Grace Xiong, Julie A Boom, and Cui Tao on January 7, 2021 Algorithms and Automation