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Google allows misleading ads on mail-in voting to remain | The Washington Post
by Isaac Stanley-Becker
September 1, 2020
Google has declined to remove ads from a shadowy group echoing President Trump’s misleading claim that there is a meaningful…
Google enables Covid-19 disinformation sites to make money, report finds | Press Gazette
by William Turvill
August 7, 2020
A new University of Oxford report has exposed how Covid-19 disinformation websites are able to use Google’s search engine and…
Roger McNamee: ‘Facebook is a threat to whatever remains of democracy in the US’ | The Guardian
by Ian Tucker
July 31, 2020
The scale of internet platforms such as Google and Facebook is unprecedented in the tech world and, I would argue,…
The epistemic tragedy of coronavirus misinformation | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
July 30, 2020
Yesterday, four of the most powerful men on earth—Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook; Jeff Bezos, of Amazon; Tim Cook, of Apple;…
Why Big Tech Is Colliding With Washington | Foreign Policy
by Colm Quinn
July 30, 2020
At noon today in Washington, four of the world’s most powerful tech leaders will testify before a U.S. Congressional committee…
Ministers urged to limit Facebook and Google’s power over ad market | The Guardian
by Alex Hern
July 7, 2020
Facebook could be forced to allow users to switch off personalised advertising, and Google required to hand valuable data about…
Misinformation about coronavirus finds new avenues on unexpected sites | Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin
May 21, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO — Within days of social media companies taking down a viral video touting conspiracy theories about the novel coronavirus,…
How search engines disseminate information about COVID-19 and why they should do better | HKS Misinformation Review
by Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman & Roberto Ulloa
May 12, 2020
Access to accurate and up-to-date information is essential for individual and collective decision making, especially at times of emergency. On…
Google and the Cost of ‘Data Voids’ During a Pandemic | WIRED
by Francesca Tripodi
May 6, 2020
Across the nation, protesters have taken to the street, demanding that governors “reopen” state economies. From North Carolina to Maryland,…