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Trendless Fluctuation? How Twitter’s Ethiopia Interventions May (Not) Have Worked | Tech Policy Press
by Megan A. Brown and Tessa Knight
6 days ago
On November 5, 2021, Twitter announced it was halting Trending topics in Ethiopia due to the ongoing threat of violence…
The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction | Nature Reviews Psychology
by Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook, Philipp Schmid, Lisa K. Fazio, Nadia Brashier, Panayiota Kendeou, Emily K. Vraga & Michelle A. Amazeen
January 12, 2022
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the…
The anti-muslim Bulli Bai app is just the latest in GitHub’s list of moderation failures in India | Rest of World
by Nilesh Christopher
January 10, 2022
When Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, there were concerns that the company would struggle to moderate controversial code on the…
Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find | The New York Times
by Stuart A. Thompson
January 5, 2022
Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold:…
Resisting and Reversing Western Media Imperialism?: Turkey’s Global Communication Outlets | Annenberg School for Communication
December 28, 2021
Since the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling AKP government has vastly expanded its global communication apparatus to promote the country as a…
Social Media Gave the Miserable a Voice | The Atlantic
by Charlie Warzel
December 28, 2021
Every morning, I wake up and grab my doom machine. My phone is a piece of revolutionary technology that puts…
‘Mission impossible?’: Tracking political misinformation and disinformation on TikTok | The Conversation
by Nuurrianti Jalli
December 22, 2021
TikTok is one of the top five social media platforms in the world this year. In Southeast Asia last year,…
Social media has weakened India’s democracy. Social movements could be the answer | Rest of World
by Gayatri Khandhadai
December 17, 2021
Since 2014, social media has become central to how elections and campaigning for state and national elections take place in…
China Uses YouTube Influencers to Spread Propaganda | The New York Times
by Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong, Aaron Krolik, Aliza Aufrichtig, and Nailah Morgan
December 15, 2021
Millions have watched Lee and Oli Barrett’s YouTube dispatches from China. The father and son duo visit hotels in exotic…