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Hochul tells Facebook to ‘clean up the act’ on abortion misinformation after Texas law | TheHill
by Justine Coleman
September 15, 2021
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) called on Facebook to "clean up the act" on abortion misinformation on Monday, as…
Germany Braces for Election Disinformation on Social Media | Foreign Policy
by Jessica Bateman
September 14, 2021
BERLIN—One Saturday last month, thousands of anti-lockdown protesters stormed my quiet neighborhood, crashing into the weekly farmers’ market with signs…
Becoming a digital power: Japan’s path for domestic transformation and international influence | Brookings Institute
September 8, 2021
With the growing risk of the fragmentation of the international digital ecosystem, prioritizing digital transformation has never been more important…
Reddit communities ‘go dark’ in protest over Covid misinformation | The Guardian
by Dan Milmo
September 1, 2021
Reddit has been hit by a user rebellion over the online discussion forum’s failure to tackle misinformation related to Covid…
YouTube suspends pay of 14 Brazilian channels over misinformation allegations | TheHill
by Caroline Vakil
August 30, 2021
Fourteen YouTube channels have had their payments suspended by the company amid allegations that they spread misinformation about the country’s…
The strange case of China’s Dr Fauci and life as a science whistleblower | Coda Story
by Isobel Cockerell
August 30, 2021
It’s been a wild couple of weeks for academic misconduct. In China, the media has been filled with headlines about…
Rejecting Covid-19 Inquiry, China Peddles Conspiracy Theories Blaming US | The New York Times
by Austin Ramzy and Amy Chang Chien
August 25, 2021
When a conspiracy theory started circulating in China suggesting that the coronavirus escaped from an American military lab, it had…
Don’t blame Russian trolls for America’s anti-vaxx problem. Our misinformation is homegrown | The Guardian
by Sophie Zhang
August 19, 2021
On 18 May 2021, German YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann tweeted an unusual message: a marketing agency was asking him to share…
Why U.S. cities are enlisting micro-influencers to fight vaccine disinformation and hesitancy | Coda Story
by Erica Hellerstein
August 13, 2021
Mike Morea had just filmed his latest makeup tutorial when I arrived at his home in San Jose, California. In…