News Item Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study | Oxford Internet Institute By Aleksi Knuutila, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Hubert Au, Jonathan Bright, Rasmus Nielsen & Philip N. Howard on September 21, 2020
News Item Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World | The New York Times By Jamelle Bouie on September 18, 2020
News Item Facebook’s latest hollow effort to fight climate change denial | Ars Technica By Kate Cox on September 16, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker | The New York Times By Sheera Frenkel on September 14, 2020
News Item But Facebook’s Not a Country: How to Interpret Human Rights Law for Social Media Companies | Yale Journal on Regulation By Susan Benesch on September 14, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement | Network Contagion Research Institute By Joel Finkelstein, Pamela Paresky, John K. Donohue, John Farmer, Alex Goldenberg, Sean Stevens, and Lee Jussim on September 14, 2020
News Item No, Facebook Does Not Reflect Reality | The New York Times By Shira Ovide on September 9, 2020 Credibility and Trust
News Item Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns | The Guardian By Edward Helmore on September 9, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem | MIT Technology Review By Author on Source on September 9, 2020 Algorithms and Automation
News Item A US PR Firm Steps Into Contested Elections | Stanford Internet Observatory By Elena Cryst, Esteban Ponce de León, Daniel Suárez Pérez & ShelbyPerkins on September 4, 2020