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For years, Shireen Mitchell has felt like sheâs screaming into the void. As a Black woman and entrepreneur whose expertise is in media manipulation, sheâs been researching disinformation in social […]
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The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), expressed concerns over the prevailing situation of violence against women journalists and human rights defenders in the country. The […]
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The reality curated by âThe Bearded Patriotâ and âThe Wolf of Washingtonâ is dismal. The websites tell of nonstop riots and âcrazed leftists.â They warn of online censorship and the […]
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In this installment of the Virality Project, we look at coronavirus-related content on RT en Español, one of the most popular and prolific outlets in RTâs network. We find that, […]
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Telegram had truly hit a nerve. The place that had been such a reliable safe haven for the far right was becoming unignorably hostile. That said, some of the communityâs […]
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On March 18, an email went out from the World Health Organization soliciting donations for its Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, to support WHOâs work tracking and treating the novel coronavirus. […]
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Women and girls face a âgrowing crisisâ of online harms, with sexual harassment, threatening messages and discrimination making the web an unsafe place to be, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned. […]
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In the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Gallup’s latest research, a solid majority of Americans do not want political campaigns to be able to micro-target them through […]
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Last month, Facebook announced that it will not limit microtargeting capabilities for political ads. Nor will it police factual accuracy of those ads. As much as the spread of blatant falsehoods on […]