On Thursday, January 14, 2021, Data & Society Researcher Robyn Caplan, Faculty Fellow Meredith D. Clark, and Research Analyst William…
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More Than 1,000 Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work? | The New York Times
by Tiffany Hsu & Eleanor Lutz
August 4, 2020
The advertiser boycott of Facebook took a toll on the social media giant, but it may have caused more damage…
Why Big Tech Is Colliding With Washington | Foreign Policy
by Colm Quinn
July 30, 2020
At noon today in Washington, four of the world’s most powerful tech leaders will testify before a U.S. Congressional committee…
Facebook Employee Leaks Show Betrayal By Company Leadership | Buzzfeed News
by Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman
July 27, 2020
On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years, shared a…
We need tougher action against disinformation and propaganda | Brookings
by Emma L. Briant
July 17, 2020
Twitter finally started fact checking Trump’s tweets in May, but their fact-checking is unlikely to have much effect given the…
The Pioneers of the Misinformation Industry | The New Republic
by Moira Weigel
July 17, 2020
There is an hour on the west side of Los Angeles, before the evening traffic slows to a crawl, when…
How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society? | The New Yorker
by Michael Luo
July 15, 2020
Henry R. Luce, the publisher of Time Inc., first proposed engaging a panel of scholars on the state of the…
Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel, Mike Isaac & Cecilia Kang
June 1, 2020
OAKLAND, Calif. — Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism on Monday of their own company, protested executives’ decision…
The media industry’s preexisting conditions | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
May 18, 2020
In March and April—as the economic crisis linked to the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus,…
It’s Not Just the Content, It’s the Business Model: Democracy’s Online Speech Challenge | New America
by Nathalie Maréchal, Ellery Roberts Biddle
March 17, 2020
This report, the first in a two-part series, articulates the connection between surveillance-based business models and the health of democracy.…