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How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation | Harvard Business Review
by Joan Donovan
6 days ago
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
by Patrice Taddonio
January 11, 2021
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
by MediaWell Staff
January 7, 2021
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
by Corin Faife
January 7, 2021
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
by Kate Conger, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel
January 6, 2021
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
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
January 6, 2021
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
by Cat Zakrzewski
January 5, 2021
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
by Rebecca Heilweil
December 21, 2020
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
by Global Columbia Collaboratory
December 16, 2020
The scandal of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica’s dubious manipulation of Facebook accounts and data to influence several elections worldwide…