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News Item Here’s How Disinformation Drives Voting Laws | The New York Times By Maggie Astor on May 13, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
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News Item Opinion: Our ‘media viability crisis’ (Part 1) – Is it getting worse? | Digital Rights Monitor By Asad Baig on May 7, 2021 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How COVID drove the evolution of fact-checking | HKS Misinformation Review By Samikshya Siwakoti, Kamya Yadav, Nicola Bariletto, Luca Zanotti, Ulas Erdogdu, and Jacob N Shapiro on May 6, 2021
News Item Cuban technologists worry politics gets in the way of opening up the internet | Rest of World By Ricardo Martinez on May 5, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance | The New Yorker By Sue Halpern on May 2, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Machine-learning project takes aim at disinformation | MIT Technology Review By MIT Technology Review Insights on May 3, 2021 Targeted Disinformation
News Item Recommended Reading: Amazon’s algorithms, conspiracy theories and extremist literature | Institute for Strategic Dialogue By Elise Thomas on April 29, 2021 Algorithms and Automation Targeted Disinformation
News Item Twitter called out for removing critical Covid tweets in India | Thomson Reuters Foundation By Rina Chandran on April 26, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance Targeted Disinformation