Twitter said Thursday it will extend its restrictions on QAnon-linked accounts and content to political candidates and elected officials who…
Archive
Focus Tag: Political Ideologies
For COVID-19, as with everything else, Americans on the right and left live in different universes when it comes to trusting the media | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Joshua Benton
September 18, 2020
There are certain kinds of news stories that are really just iterations of an Ur-text, the defining statement about human…
Targeting Greta Thunberg: A Case Study in Online Mis/Disinformation | The German Marshall Fund
by Eli Weiner, Laura Schwartz-Henderson, Emily Boardman Ndulue, and Aashka Dave
July 23, 2020
The German Marshall Fund’s Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative worked with MediaCloud to examine misinformation and disinformation related to the…
It’s Time to Defund Social Media | WIRED
by Whitney Phillips
July 22, 2020
While it might be tempting to blame the people who refuse to wear masks, or the politicians who would rather…
Facts or fake news: Revealing patterns in the COVID-19 tweets of Trudeau and Trump | The Conversation
by Anthony Bonato and Alex Nazareth
July 15, 2020
From its ostensible origins in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, COVID-19 has spread across the globe. There are now a…
Protest misinformation is riding on the success of pandemic hoaxes | MIT Technology Review
by Joan Donovan
June 11, 2020
In one version, tens of thousands of protesters are marching to force accountability on the US justice system, shining a…
How the right-wing response to Iran set the stage for 2020’s misinformation campaign | Columbia Journalism Review
by Bob Norman
June 9, 2020
Earlier this year—before the pandemic, before the mass protests across the United States—another crowd gathered, this time in Tehran, Iran.…
The World Was Primed for Protest Conspiracy Theories | WIRED
by Emma Grey Ellis
June 4, 2020
As protests against police brutality and systemic racism, sparked by the death of unarmed black man George Floyd at the…
Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
June 2, 2020
On Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of posts are circulating saying that George Floyd is not actually dead.Conspiracy theorists are baselessly…
Listen: The Comforting Appeal of Conspiracy Theories | The Atlantic
by James Hamblin and Katherine Wells
May 19, 2020
On this episode of Social Distance, James Hamblin and Katherine Wells talk with Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic, who wrote the…