During COVID-19, governments and the public are fighting not only a pandemic but also a co-evolving infodemic—the rapid and far-reaching…
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Focus Tag: Echo Chambers & Filter Bubbles
Trump’s viral megaphone fueled by Twitter army in lead-up to election | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg
October 30, 2020
President Trump launched into a tweetstorm in April, banging out nine retweets of the Centers for Disease Control’s account on…
Older people and Republicans are most likely to share Covid-19 stories from fake news sites on Twitter | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
October 29, 2020
Since March, a group of scholars from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern have been working to understand how social behaviors…
Joan Donovan: Poorly Regulated Online Spaces, Pandemic Have Contributed To Mainstreaming Of QAnon | Boston Public Radio
by Zoe Mathews
October 29, 2020
Joan Donovan, research director for Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, said Wednesday that our increasingly…
Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers | SpringerLink
by Kazutoshi Sasahara, Wen Chen, Hao Peng, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer
September 14, 2020
While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they also facilitate basic influence and…
Lots of visible likes and shares on social lead people to spread more misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
August 7, 2020
It’s time to rethink engagement metrics, say the authors of a paper published last week in the Harvard Kennedy School’s…
Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs – lessons from the pandemic | The Conversation
by Kate Starbird
July 24, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic, a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation. In this environment,…
How users see Facebook’s labels will determine their effectiveness | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas and Susan Benkelman
July 24, 2020
What does a label really mean? This week, Facebook attached “Get Voting Information” links to posts by both President Donald…
How climate change misinformation spreads online | Carbon Brief
by Kathie Treen, Dr Hywel Williams, & Dr Saffron O’Neill
June 30, 2020
The rapid rise of social media over the past two decades has brought with it a surge in misinformation. Online…
New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified coronavirus – The Washington Post
by Christopher Ingraham
June 25, 2020
Coronavirus infections have surged in a number of states, setting the United States on a markedly different pandemic trajectory than…