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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…
CDCS Book Talk: Asta Zelenkauskaitė, 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…
How a false claim about the Wikipedia Recession article sparked a right-wing media frenzy | Slate
by Samuel Breslow
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…
Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions? | BBC Sounds
by Mpho Lakaje
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…
Replacement Theory, a Fringe Belief Fueled Online, Is Refashioned by G.O.P. | The New York Times
by Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish
May 17, 2022
Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers,…
How a Tennessee Nurse Unwittingly Became the Face of an Anti-Vax Campaign | On The Media
by WNYC Studios
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…
Carlson shows why cable news is ideal terrain for election misinformation | The Washington Post
by Philip Bump
May 9, 2022
One of the reasons that Tucker Carlson is successful at what he does is because of where he does it.…
Don’t call it crazy: How the media “wraparound” effect cements people’s beliefs | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Dan Falk
May 5, 2022
Our world is awash in mis- and disinformation. Conspiratorial thinking and misguided beliefs and attitudes towards science are widespread. But…
The Vance-Carlson-Trump nexus | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
May 4, 2022
“Cultural heroin.” In July 2016, J.D. Vance used those words, in an Atlantic op-ed, to explain, and ultimately dismiss, the…