Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has generated…
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I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
6 days ago
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
Facebook’s New Target in the Misinformation War: Climate Lies | Bloomberg
by Kurt Wagner
6 days ago
In the midst of the heated U.S. presidential race last summer, with hypercharged scrutiny of partisan propaganda on social media,…
Why China’s attempts to stifle foreign media criticism are likely to fail | The Conversation
by Tony Walker
6 days ago
When China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, summoned journalists to the Chinese embassy last week, this was not an occasion…
Can A.I. help Facebook cure its disinformation problem? | Fortune
by Jeremy Kahn
April 6, 2021
In addition to testing American democracy, November’s election and the subsequent storming of the U.S. Capitol put social media to the test. Facebook and its rivals have spent…
In a Pennsylvania town, a Facebook group fills the local news void | NBC News
by Brandy Zadrozny
April 6, 2021
The day after Thanksgiving 2019, residents of Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania, watched from their windows as state and local police combed…
Biden Administration Announces Ad Campaign to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy | The New York Times
by Annie Karni
April 2, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday morning announced an ambitious advertising campaign intended to encourage as many Americans as…
From fact-checking to women’s rights: TikTok’s promising rise in the Global South | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Laura Oliver
April 2, 2021
Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was TikTok’s year. The app reportedly added 181 million monthly active users from December 2019…
The coalition for factual information and informed public discourse is stronger than ever | Poynter
by Baybars Örsek
April 1, 2021
In 2016, during the third Global Fact conference in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the world’s fact-checkers decided to name April…
Beijing Is Getting Better at Disinformation on Global Social Media | The Diplomat
by Sarah Cook
March 30, 2021
When China-linked networks of social media bots and trolls appeared on the global disinformation scene in 2019, most analysts concluded…