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Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post
by Maggie Macdonald and Megan A. Brown
August 30, 2022
Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics.…
Meta Oversight Board to rule on COVID-19 misinformation policy | Poynter
by Seth Smalley
August 1, 2022
Meta has asked its Oversight Board whether its existing policy on the removal of COVID-19 misinformation — “introduced in extraordinary…
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers urge Facebook, Twitter to better fight Russian disinformation | Reuters
by Reuters
July 29, 2022
A bipartisan group of three U.S. senators urged Meta's Facebook, Twitter and Telegram to do a better job of stopping…
Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid misinformation | The Guardian
by Alex Hern
July 27, 2022
Facebook is turning to its “supreme court” to decide whether to end restrictions on Covid misinformation, more than two years…
Facebook Without News Would Be Even Worse | The Atlantic
by Kaitlyn Tiffany
July 26, 2022
In February 2021, Facebook abruptly wiped all of the news from its platform in Australia. The country’s lawmakers were trying…
Meta Made Millions in Ads From Networks of Fake Accounts | WIRED
by Vittoria Elliott
July 14, 2022
When Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify before Congress in 2018, he was asked by Senator Orin Hatch how…
“Facebook has taken over”: How residents find local info when local newspapers aren’t doing the job | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Laura Hazard Owen
June 22, 2022
The decline of local newspapers isn’t just a problem in the U.S.: A new report looks at how residents of…
The Fight to Hold Pornhub Accountable | The New Yorker
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
June 15, 2022
Mickelwait pulled out her laptop, created a dummy e-mail account, and uploaded a video of a darkened corner of her…
Measuring the effect of Facebook’s downranking interventions against groups and websites that repeatedly share misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review
by Emmanuel M. Vincent, Héloïse Théro, and Shaden Shabayek
June 14, 2022
Facebook has claimed to fight misinformation notably by reducing the virality of posts shared by “repeat offender” websites. The platform…