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Here’s How Disinformation Drives Voting Laws | The New York Times
by Maggie Astor
May 13, 2021
When State Representative Bobby Kaufmann of Iowa spoke in February in support of a restrictive voting bill he was sponsoring,…
Facebook claims it mistakenly hid posts calling for India’s prime minister to resign | The Verge
by Mitchell Clark
April 29, 2021
When Facebook users tried to view a hashtag calling for the resignation of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday,…
An introduction to live audio social media and misinformation | First Draft
by Bethan John and Shaydanay Urbani
April 29, 2021
Facebook’s planned suite of new audio features could be the most significant development in live, audio-based social media since Clubhouse…
The Influencers Who Keep Stoking Fears About Vaccines | The Atlantic
by Renée DiResta
April 27, 2021
News articles from most media properties, including Fox News, reported on the Johnson & Johnson pause with accuracy and nuance,…
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and accuracy aren’t the only things that matter | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'alverne, and Amy Ross Arguedas
April 26, 2021
This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that…
Alessandra Galloni on how to restore trust in news: “Focus ruthlessly on the facts” | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
April 14, 2021
Journalism today is facing two overlapping challenges: one is technological and the other one is political. The technological change is…
MENA Monitor: Arabic COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Online | ISD
by Ciaran O’Connor and Moustafa Ayad
April 12, 2021
This report is part of an ongoing series examining COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook in countries and regions across the…
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens | The Guardian
by Julia Carrie Wong
April 12, 2021
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite…
YouTube argues it’s getting better at removing hate speech | The Washington Post
by Gerritt de Vynck
April 7, 2021
YouTube released data on Tuesday arguing that it is getting better at spotting and removing videos that break its rules against…