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  • Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation

    October 19, 2022

    The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media […]

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  • Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism | Lawfare

    September 29, 2022

    Technology companies are more active than ever in trying to stop terrorists, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other hateful individuals, organizations, and movements from exploiting their platforms, but government and […]

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  • 2022 Foundational Integrity Research Call for Proposals | Meta Research

    September 29, 2022

    Meta’s integrity efforts are at the heart of the company’s mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, because we want social technologies […]

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  • 2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series

    September 19, 2022

    Beyond Facebook and Twitter: The Impact of New and Niche Platforms For years, Facebook and Twitter dominated scholarly research about the social media landscape. But in the last few years, […]

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  • Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature

    September 15, 2022

    As the effects of climate change continue to worsen, so does the ideological polarization around this issue which has caused an increase in climate denialism. With the evolution of social media and the internet sharing mis- and disinformation, conspiracy theories, echo chambers, and ideological entrenchment has only furthered disbelief in climate change over the last 50 years. This literature review points to the causes of how climate information has been misused and guides us towards next steps in combatting not only climate change but climate change denial.

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  • Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme | ProPublica

    September 6, 2022

    To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram, Dr. Martin Jugenburg is Real Dr. 6ix, a well-coiffed Toronto plastic surgeon posting images and video of his work sculpting the decolletage, […]

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  • Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post

    August 30, 2022

    As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding what could be a wild card. But it’s one the […]

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  • Republican candidates are spreading more fake news than just two years ago | The Washington Post

    August 30, 2022

    Over the last several years, there’s been a considerable increase in media coverage about misinformation and conspiracy theories in politics. The media has routinely reported on these falsehoods, making it […]

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  • CDCS Book Talk: Asta Zelenkauskaitė, Drexel University

    August 26, 2022

    With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity,Creating Chaos Online, unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic […]

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  • Job Opportunity: NewsQ Project Coordinator, Reliable Sources | Hacks/Hackers

    August 18, 2022

    Hacks/Hackers is looking for a Research Coordinator to help us wrangle project resources and communications for a project that supports the use of reliable sources on Wikipedia, particularly those associated […]

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