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Science and Scientists Held in High Esteem Across Global Publics | Pew Research Center
by Cary Funk, Alec Tyson, Brian Kennedy & Courtney Johnson
October 2, 2020
As publics around the world look to scientists and the research and development process to bring new treatments and preventive…
Call for Participants: Against Platform Determinism | Data & Society
by Robyn Caplan, Meredith D. Clark & William Partin
September 19, 2020
On Thursday, January 14, 2021, Data & Society Researcher Robyn Caplan, Faculty Fellow Meredith D. Clark, and Research Analyst William…
Facebook removes Russian disinformation network | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg
September 4, 2020
Facebook removed a network of fake accounts and pages created by Russian operatives who had recruited U.S. journalists to write…
Threats, Lies and Videotape: Prigozhin’s Long-Running War on Free Media | bellingcat
by Bellingcat Investigation Team
September 4, 2020
On 21 May 2019, a team of three CNN journalists and a supporting crew of five landed in Bangui, the…
Facebook Moves to Stop Election Misinformation | The New York Times
by Mike Isaac
September 4, 2020
Facebook on Thursday moved to clamp down on any confusion about the November election on its service, rolling out a sweeping…
Roger McNamee: ‘Facebook is a threat to whatever remains of democracy in the US’ | The Guardian
by Ian Tucker
July 31, 2020
The scale of internet platforms such as Google and Facebook is unprecedented in the tech world and, I would argue,…
These artists make online disinformation into art. Or is it the other way around? | Washington Post
by Kelsey Ables
June 19, 2020
The verb “to Google” has become almost synonymous with “to know.” How’d you know that the Louvre is 652,300 square feet?…
How the right-wing response to Iran set the stage for 2020’s misinformation campaign | Columbia Journalism Review
by Bob Norman
June 9, 2020
Earlier this year—before the pandemic, before the mass protests across the United States—another crowd gathered, this time in Tehran, Iran.…
Coronavirus and the Spanish flu: A historian reflects on key lessons | Vox
by Sean Illing
April 13, 2020
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s…