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Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
by Dam Hee Kim, Anjana Susarla, and Scott Shackelford
October 19, 2022
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
2022 Foundational Integrity Research Call for Proposals | Meta Research
by Meta Research
September 29, 2022
Meta's integrity efforts are at the heart of the company's mission to give people the power to build community and…
2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series
September 19, 2022
Beyond Facebook and Twitter: The Impact of New and Niche Platforms For years, Facebook and Twitter dominated scholarly research about…
Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch
by Taylor Hatmaker
September 15, 2022
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms…
Meta Made Millions in Ads From Networks of Fake Accounts | WIRED
by Vittoria Elliott
July 14, 2022
When Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify before Congress in 2018, he was asked by Senator Orin Hatch how…
Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser and Hana Kiros
June 29, 2022
Google says in its terms of service that the company reserves the right to remove any content that violates the…
Measuring the effect of Facebook’s downranking interventions against groups and websites that repeatedly share misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review
by Emmanuel M. Vincent, Héloïse Théro, and Shaden Shabayek
June 14, 2022
Facebook has claimed to fight misinformation notably by reducing the virality of posts shared by “repeat offender” websites. The platform…
Facebook’s new data-sharing plans raise old concerns | Columbia Journalism Review
by Mathew Ingram
May 27, 2022
On Monday, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said that it plans to share more data about political ad targeting…
Meta Will Give Researchers More Information on Political Ad Targeting | The New York Times
by Mike Isaac
May 24, 2022
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it planned to give outside researchers more detailed information on how political ads…