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How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation | Harvard Business Review
Over the last four years, disinformation has become a global watchword. After Russian meddling on social networks during the 2016…
Maria Ressa Maps Disinformation in Documentary ‘A Thousand Cuts’ | Frontline
In the months after Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016, Maria Ressa’s staff at the independent…
Platform Ban Round-up: Critics say Too Little, Too Late
Finally spurred to action by scenes of a disinformation-fueled mob of insurrectionists storming the Capitol, the major US social media…
In Georgia, Facebook’s changes brought back a partisan News Feed | Nieman Journalism Lab
As Georgians head to the polls to vote on their two U.S. Senators — and effectively, partisan control of Congress…
Violence on Capitol Hill Is a Day of Reckoning for Social Media | The New York Times
Update: Twitter has insisted that President Trump delete three tweets, and said it would lock his account for 12 hours,…
Making Sense of the Facebook Menace | The New Republic
Facebook is what Neil Postman would have called a metamedium: a medium that contains all other media—text, images, sounds, videos.…
The Technology 202: Republican Facebook ads targeting Georgia runoff contain disinformation, researchers find | The Washington Post
Republican politicians and super PACs have been spreading disinformation in Facebook ads targeting Georgia voters in the critical final days…
Facebook and YouTube are losing the Covid-19 vaccine misinformation fight | Vox
Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about…
Webinar: Is Social Media Undermining Democracy? | Columbia Global Centers
The scandal of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica’s dubious manipulation of Facebook accounts and data to influence several elections worldwide…