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The Bigger Threat Was Always Domestic | The Atlantic
by Emerson T. Brooking & Jacob Shapiro
January 11, 2021
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
by Global Columbia Collaboratory
December 16, 2020
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
by Laura Wasten
December 7, 2020
Andrew Marantz’s 2019 novel Antisocial has never been more relevant to American politics that in 2020. Life is tough right…
Eleonore Pauwels
November 12, 2020
The media should remember key lessons from the Trump era | The Washington Post
by Jennifer Rubin
November 10, 2020
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
by Tarleton Gillespie, Patricia Aufderheide, Elinor Carmi, Ysabel Gerrard, Robert Gorwa, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Sarah T. Roberts, Aram Sinnreich, and Sarah Myers West
October 23, 2020
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
by Aleksandra Urman, Stefania Ionescu, David Garcia, and Anikó Hannák
October 22, 2020
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
by Nazim Choudhury, Kin Wai Ng, and Adriana Iamnitchi
October 16, 2020
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
by Jack Brewster
September 18, 2020
Twitter said Thursday it will extend its restrictions on QAnon-linked accounts and content to political candidates and elected officials who…