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Google is giving $3 million to news orgs to fact-check vaccine misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Sarah Scire
7 days ago
The Google News Initiative announced it will give $3 million to news and fact-checking organizations in an effort to combat…
Inauthentic Editing: Changing Wikipedia to Win Elections and Influence People | Stanford Internet Observatory
by Maha Al Fahim, Sean Gallagher, Miles McCain & Nick Rubin
January 11, 2021
The principle that “anyone can edit” Wikipedia has been foundational to the massive success of the nearly entirely volunteer-driven encyclopedia.…
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…
Why social media hasn’t been able to shut down vaccine misinformation | POLITICO
by Alexandra S. Levine
December 23, 2020
Anti-vaccination movements are not new to the online landscape, and tech platforms have long been grappling with how to handle…
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…
11 laws and bills against disinformation in Latin America | Latin American Journalism Review
by Júlio Lubianco
December 18, 2020
As in the rest of the world, in Latin America, disinformation and fake news on the Internet spread rapidly and…
Combating misinformation in under-resourced languages: lessons from around the world | First Draft
by Ali Abbas Ahmadi
December 18, 2020
2020 has taught us that virtually all communities struggle with the effects of misinformation. While those that speak majority languages…
Guess which states saw the most election disinformation in 2020 | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley
December 18, 2020
On November 3, Tina Barton ran into a problem. It was Election Day in the US and Barton, a Republican,…
Opinion: What to Do About Doctors Who Push Misinformation? | The New York Times
by Richard A. Friedman
December 11, 2020
It’s bad enough when our political leaders promote quack theories about coronavirus and its treatment; but what do we do…