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Vaccine hesitancy threatens to undermine pandemic response | The British Academy
by The British Academy
November 10, 2020
An 80% take up of a COVID-19 vaccine could be necessary to protect the community but, given the scale and…
Why A Gamer Started A Web Of Disinformation Sites Aimed At Latino Americans | FiveThirtyEight
by Kaleigh Rogers and Jaime Longoria
October 22, 2020
This article was written in collaboration with First Draft, a nonprofit organization that provides investigative research to newsrooms tracking and…
Social Media Influencers and the 2020 U.S. Election: Paying ‘Regular People’ for Digital Campaign Communication | Center for Media Engagement
by Anastasia Goodwin, Katie Joseff, and Samuel C. Woolley
October 15, 2020
Coordinated networks of social media influencers, especially small-scale influencers with fewer than 10,000 followers, are now a powerful asset for…
Black women are being targeted in misinformation campaigns. Here’s what to know. | The Lily
by Soo Youn
October 2, 2020
For years, Shireen Mitchell has felt like she’s screaming into the void. As a Black woman and entrepreneur whose expertise…
OHCHR raises concerns over the disturbing trend of digital attacks on women journalists in Pakistan | Digital Rights Monitor
by Hija Kamran
September 10, 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), expressed concerns over the prevailing situation of violence against…
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms | Elsevier
by Elsevier
September 3, 2020
Online Social Networks and Media have revolutionized society, and are now a key part of how most people work, live,…
Disinformation for profit: How a Florida ‘dealmaker’ turns conservative outrage into cash | The Washington Post
by Isaac Stanley-Becker
August 13, 2020
The reality curated by “The Bearded Patriot” and “The Wolf of Washington” is dismal. The websites tell of nonstop riots…
Two Faces of Russian Information Operations: Coronavirus Coverage in Spanish | Stanford Internet Observatory
by Daniel Bush
August 3, 2020
In this installment of the Virality Project, we look at coronavirus-related content on RT en Español, one of the most…
Neo-Nazis Are Running Out of Places to Hide Online | WIRED
by Rita Katz
July 9, 2020
Telegram had truly hit a nerve. The place that had been such a reliable safe haven for the far right…