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Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes | The Conversation
by Jeanna Matthews
January 13, 2022
Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your…
“Operation My Fellow Jews:” 4chan’s Campaign to Spread Antisemitism on Twitter | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Kaylee Fagan
November 16, 2021
On Aug. 16, 2019, an anonymous user posted to 4chan’s Politically Incorrect board calling upon fellow 4chan users to impersonate Jewish people online…
How social media companies help African governments abuse “disinformation laws” to target critics | Rest of World
by Tomiwa Ilori
November 4, 2021
Around the world, internet users are caught between governments’ efforts to regulate online harms and social media platforms, which alternate…
Opinion: Not Everyone in New York Wanted the Coronavirus to Lose | The New York Times
by Mara Gay
November 1, 2021
For nearly a year now, a small team of officials from City Hall and the public health department have pored…
The “Phone Disaster”: How WeChat became digital traps for Chinese Uyghurs | Rest of World
by Darren Byler
October 14, 2021
The young Uyghur man, whom I’ll refer to as Qeyser, saw a phone for the first time in 2005, when…
Russia labels media outlet, 2 rights groups ‘foreign agents’ | AP News
by Daria Litvinova
September 30, 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Wednesday designated a popular independent media outlet and two rights groups “foreign agents,” a…
Blackbird.AI grabs $10M to help brands counter disinformation | TechCrunch
by Natasha Lomas
September 22, 2021
New York-based Blackbird.AI has closed a $10 million Series A as it prepares to launch the next version of its…
Cuba’s internet and journalism blackouts | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
July 19, 2021
On Tuesday, Dina Fernandez, a Cuban YouTuber who goes by the name Dina Stars, was doing an interview on Todo…
Listen: Shamed and Confused | On the Media
by On the Media
June 7, 2021
After a young Associated Press journalist lost her job last month following online attacks, On the Media considers how bad…