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From the Arab Spring to Russian censorship: a decade of internet blackouts and repression | Rest of World
by Peter Guest
April 27, 2022
On February 27, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, radio journalist Valerii Nechay returned to St. Petersburg from a…
Distinct Archetypes of YouTube Politics
April 19, 2022
The following is an essay written by a SSRC Social Data Research Fellow, based on their project. The program was…
States Weigh Shielding Doctors’ COVID Misinformation, Unproven Remedies | The Pew Charitable Trusts
by Michael Ollove
April 7, 2022
The controversy began in September, more than a year into the pandemic, when the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners issued…
Ukrainian Refugees: Prebunking 5 Common Migration Myths | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Catesby Holmes
March 11, 2022
As Ukrainians flee Russia’s military invasion and bombardment of their country, they are largely being met with compassion in neighboring…
The information war over Ukraine | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
January 25, 2022
Late on Saturday night, local time, British government officials published a highly unusual press release under an ultra-clickable headline: “Kremlin…
If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift | The Washington Post
by Margaret Sullivan
January 3, 2022
In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right. They’ve published major investigations,…
“I feel it in my gut”: Epistemic motivations, political beliefs, and misperceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 Election | Annenberg School for Communication
December 28, 2021
The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey…
Unmasking Polarization: How Conservatives Make Sense of Covid19 Coverage | Columbia Journalism Review
by Anthony Nadler, Doron Taussig, Natacha Yazbeck, Andrea Wenzel
December 8, 2021
Distrust in the “mainstream media” is now a central tenet of American conservatism, and this skepticism has consequences: Democrats and…
How the “big lie” about the 2020 election spread | Axios
by Sara Fischer
November 22, 2021
Donald Trump's "big lie" playbook — the collection of falsehoods alleging that the 2020 election was stolen through voting fraud…