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  • Collaborators invited for community engagement fund vs. disinformation | GMA News Online

    February 28, 2023

    Since 2016, my colleagues and I have authored multiple studies about social media disinformation and influence operations and their pernicious consequences to political debate, trust in the electoral process, and […]

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  • Undermining Ukraine | Atlantic Council

    February 28, 2023

    In the lead-up to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin and its proxies perpetrated information operations to justify military action against Ukraine, mask its operational planning, and deny […]

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  • When your ā€œfriendsā€ spy on you: The firm pitching Orwellian social media surveillance to militaries | Forbidden Stories

    February 22, 2023

    Imagine opening Facebook to a new friend request. You click on the profile and notice mutual friends. The person shares interesting content related to your job or passion on their […]

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  • Foreign Interference & Propaganda: What We Know and What to Expect | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics

    February 15, 2023

    Since Russia’s attempt to interfere with the 2016 election, the political and scholarly community has focused considerable attention on foreign influence in American politics. Researchers and media have investigated the […]

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  • GW IDDP: Research Spotlight Webinar Featuring Jeffrey Lees

    February 1, 2023

    In his project “Real Time Monitoring of 2022 US Election-Related Misinformation and its Psycho-Social Correlates on Twitter” Jeffrey Lees seeks to answer the question what is the role of superusers? […]

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  • American Views 2022: Part 1 | Knight Foundation

    October 19, 2022

    A robust press is vital to a healthy democracy. But newsrooms need resources to create reliable news that is accessible and free from influence. Since 2017, Gallup and the John […]

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  • The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World | Berkman Klein Center

    May 13, 2022

    Who is part of technology development, who funds that development, and how we put technology to use all influence the outcomes that are possible. To change those outcomes, we must—all […]

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  • Google paying more than 300 EU publishers for news, more to come | Reuters

    May 12, 2022

    BRUSSELS, May 11 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries for their news and […]

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  • Elon Musk is wrong: research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation | The Conversation

    May 9, 2022

    Elon Musk’s accepted bid to purchase Twitter has triggered a lot of debate about what it means for the future of the social media platform, which plays an important role […]

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  • Carlson shows why cable news is ideal terrain for election misinformation | The Washington Post

    May 9, 2022

    One of the reasons that Tucker Carlson is successful at what he does is because of where he does it. Carlson hosts a television show on a cable-news network that […]

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