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Lies on Social Media Inflame Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel
4 days ago
In a 28-second video, which was posted to Twitter this week by a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of…
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter | AP News
by Erika Kinetz
4 days ago
BRUSSELS (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global…
Trump Ban From Facebook Upheld by Oversight Board | The New York Times
by Mike Isaac
May 6, 2021
A Facebook-appointed panel of journalists, activists and lawyers on Wednesday upheld the social network’s ban of former President Donald J.…
Why upholding Trump’s Facebook ban won’t break the cycle | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser
May 5, 2021
“It was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension,” the decision reads. Facebook…
Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance | The New Yorker
by Sue Halpern
May 4, 2021
When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’…
Falun Gong-aligned media push fake news about Democrats and Chinese communists | The Guardian
by Jason Wilson
April 30, 2021
US news outlets aligned with Falun Gong, a religious movement locked in a decades-long conflict with the Chinese state, have…
Why pro-Duterte trolls tried to take down a Filipino food bank | Rest of World
by Ramon Royandoyan
April 30, 2021
When another strict lockdown shut down her furniture shop in Quezon City, Ana Patricia Non sat inside and stewed. The…
Are Google and Facebook really the future of journalism? New Policies risk making it so | Columbia Journalism Review
by Emily Bell
April 29, 2021
At the end of February this year, Australia passed a law which required Facebook and Google to either negotiate deals…
Facebook claims it mistakenly hid posts calling for India’s prime minister to resign | The Verge
by Mitchell Clark
April 29, 2021
When Facebook users tried to view a hashtag calling for the resignation of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday,…