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“Anything that causes chaos is RT’s line”- new study lifts the lid on RT’s role in wreaking political havoc. | Oxford Internet Institute
by Mona Elswah & Philip N. Howard
2 days ago
New analysis from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, shows how internal processes at RT contribute to…
How Fox News Could Influence Election Day 2020 | The Atlantic
by John Hendrickson
2 days ago
This year, with an expected surge of mail-in ballots due to the pandemic, we may not know anything definitive for…
Black Media-Makers and the Fierce Urgency of Now
September 22, 2020
A symposium on the powerful contributions of Black media-makers in this moment organized by Sarah J. Jackson, featuring Gene Demby, Maori…
Platforms for Harm? | Centre for International Governance Innovation
by The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Taylor Owen, Heidi Tworek, Daniel Bernhard & Rita Trichur
September 22, 2020
For almost 30 years the World Wide Web has been open to the public, but with the advent of user-generated…
In the Future, Propaganda Will Be Computer-Generated | The Atlantic
by Renée DiResta
September 22, 2020
The ideal scenario for the modern propagandist, of course, is to have convincing personas produce original content. Generative text is…
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World | The New York Times
by Jamelle Bouie
September 21, 2020
For years, Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group,…
Data protection laws apply to anyone who collects information about a living individual. So what do researchers in arts, humanities and social sciences need to know? | Impact of Social Sciences
by Katherine Foxhall
September 16, 2020
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on 25 May 2018, and was designed to protect the…
Peace Data, an apparent Russian disinformation outlet, tried to recruit me | Slate
by Jacob Silverman
September 9, 2020
According to Facebook, Twitter, and the FBI, peacedata.net, a website to which Krakow had just submitted his 10th freelance contribution,…
Animal Crossing needs a fake news policy | Slate
by Daniel Kelley
September 9, 2020
Most people think of social media as the only source for digital social platforms, but countless online multiplayer games fit…