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  • How to tackle political polarization — the researchers trying to bridge divides | Nature

    March 7, 2023

    On 20 October 2020, in the middle of a bitterly contested US election season, there was an unexpected dĂ©tente in Utah. Two opposing candidates for governor, Spencer Cox (a Republican) […]

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  • Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims | Brookings

    February 13, 2023

    On February 2021, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his co-host Michael Knowles, a Daily Wire commentator, recorded a live episode of the Verdict With Ted Cruz podcast. In conversation about […]

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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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  • 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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  • CDCS Book Talk: Asta ZelenkauskaitÄ—, Drexel University

    August 26, 2022

    With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity,Creating Chaos Online, unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic […]

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  • How a false claim about the Wikipedia Recession article sparked a right-wing media frenzy | Slate

    August 15, 2022

    July 29, when Beyoncé’s new album dropped, was a great day for her Wikipedia article, which received more than 90,000 views. But that same day, another article, Recession, racked up more […]

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  • Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions? | BBC Sounds

    August 15, 2022

    What happened when a bizarre US-based conspiracy theory surfaced a continent away in Africa? In the second part of Trending’s mini series about the impact of QAnon around the world, […]

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  • Replacement Theory, a Fringe Belief Fueled Online, Is Refashioned by G.O.P. | The New York Times

    May 17, 2022

    Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States. […]

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  • How a Tennessee Nurse Unwittingly Became the Face of an Anti-Vax Campaign | On The Media

    May 15, 2022

    On this week’s show, we share an excerpt of a new podcast hosted by friend-of-the-show and NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny. The podcast follows one the the most viral and […]

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  • Carlson shows why cable news is ideal terrain for election misinformation | The Washington Post

    May 9, 2022

    One of the reasons that Tucker Carlson is successful at what he does is because of where he does it. Carlson hosts a television show on a cable-news network that […]

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