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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,…
RightsCon Online 2020
July 23, 2020
RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age. Originally called the Silicon Valley Human Rights…
Allied Media Conference
July 23, 2020
The Allied Media Conference emerges out of 20 years of relationship-building across issues, identities, organizing practices and creative mediums. Since…
Joint Conference on Right-Wing Studies & Research on Male Supremacism Tickets | Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies & Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
July 21, 2020
Register for the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies/Institute for Research on Male Supremacism virtual conference to join other researchers focused…
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier | Reuters
by Raphael Satter
July 16, 2020
Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a…
“It isn’t the Russians who murdered George Floyd.” How US disinformation threatens Black Lives Matter | Coda Story
by Isobel Cockerell and Rachel Sherman
June 17, 2020
As anti-racism protests continue to sweep the United States, disinformation experts warn the Black Lives Matter movement is threatened by…
The Return of Reality? | BBC Radio 4
by BBC Radio 4
June 1, 2020
Before Covid-19 hit, the latest research showed we were more polarised than ever. We broadly agree on the issues -…
Exclusive: Islamophobic disinformation and hate speech has swamped social media during the coronavirus pandemic | Coda Story
by Burhan Wazir
May 21, 2020
A series of Twitter hashtags falsely accusing Muslims around the world of deliberately spreading the novel coronavirus has pushed Islamophobic…
Coronavirus: website launched in US to track pandemic-inspired hate speech and abuse online | South China Morning Post
by Owen Churchill
April 17, 2020
The Anti-Semitism Accountability Project (ASAP), a US-based Jewish advocacy organisation, has launched an incident reporting portal to track online hate…