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How Misinformation Threatened a Montana National Heritage Area | The New York Times
by Reid J. Epstein
October 26, 2021
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — In the summer of 2020, as pandemic shutdowns closed businesses and racial justice protests erupted on…
Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa | Africa Center for Strategic Studies
by Africa Center for Strategic Studies
October 7, 2021
From Asmara to Abuja, Sudan to South Africa, digital disinformation is becoming an increasingly common feature of Africa’s domestic political…
Local news and media capture: a Q&A with Phil Napoli | Columbia Journalism Review
by Anya Schiffrin and Lauren Harris
September 30, 2021
For many years, the term “media capture” was used primarily by economists and political scientists who wanted to understand societies…
Afghanistan Has Its Own Fake News Problem | Deadline
by Hollie McKay
September 23, 2021
A month into the Taliban takeover of Kabul, and the misinformation and disinformation continues to soar into dizzying territory –…
How Hope, Fear and Misinformation Led Thousands of Haitians to the U.S. Border | The New York Times
by James Dobbins, Natalie Kitroeff, Anatoly Kurmanaev, Edgar Sandoval and Miriam Jordan
September 21, 2021
DEL RIO, Texas — They have arrived this week by the thousands, Haitians who had heard of an easy way…
Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. | WSJ
by Justin Scheck, Newley Purnell, and Jeff Horwitz
September 21, 2021
In January, a former cop turned Facebook Inc. investigator posted an all-staff memo on the company’s internal message board. It…
Misinformation is a global problem. One of the solutions might work across continents too. | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Sarah Scire
September 16, 2021
Is there something WEIRD about fact-checking? Much of the research about combating misinformation with fact-checking comes from experiments that looked…
Twitter’s racist algorithm is also ageist, ableist and Islamaphobic, researchers find | NBC
by Kevin Collier
August 12, 2021
A Twitter image-cropping algorithm that went viral last year when users discovered it preferred white people to Black people was…
The Italian disinformation networks flying under Facebook’s radar | Coda Story
by Mary Steffenhagen
July 22, 2021
In the weeks leading up to Italy’s first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, the most widely shared articles on Facebook…