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Focus Tag: Political Ideologies
The Bigger Threat Was Always Domestic | The Atlantic
Exaggerating the threat of foreign disinformation made the problem harder to address. As the information scholars Alexei Abrahams and Gabrielle…
Webinar: Is Social Media Undermining Democracy? | Columbia Global Centers
The scandal of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica’s dubious manipulation of Facebook accounts and data to influence several elections worldwide…
Antisocial is entertaining and enlightening in the age of misinformation | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Andrew Marantz’s 2019 novel Antisocial has never been more relevant to American politics that in 2020. Life is tough right…
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The media should remember key lessons from the Trump era | The Washington Post
The Trump era saw some marvelous investigative reporting, including The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold’s investigations of President Trump’s finances and…
Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates | Internet Policy Review
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by…
COVID-19 and the politicisation of medical preprints on Twitter: Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Data | Journal of Medical Internet Research
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been willing to share their results quickly to speed up the…
Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets | International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are critical concerns for researchers in social…
Twitter Expands QAnon Restrictions To Include Candidates, Elected Officials | Forbes
Twitter said Thursday it will extend its restrictions on QAnon-linked accounts and content to political candidates and elected officials who…