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Brazilian Official Granted Power to Order Removal of Misinformation Online | The New York Times
by Jack Nicas
October 28, 2022
Brazilian authorities, grappling with a torrent of online misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election, granted the nation’s elections chief…
Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
by Victoria Smith, Jon Bateman, and Dean Jackson
October 28, 2022
As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have…
What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
Moderating Social Media Discourse for a Healthy Democracy | University of Texas
by Josephine Lukito, Kathyrn Kazanas, and Bin Chen
October 28, 2022
The prevalence of hate speech and misinformation on the internet, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, directly harms minority groups that…
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…
Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times
by Tiffany Hsu
October 13, 2022
Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening…
‘Democracy on the line’: Brazil’s election and the Bolsonaro disinformation ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jem Bartholomew
October 13, 2022
Brazilians will return to voting booths on October 30 to decide a heated presidential race, with polls showing that the…
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…
Can regulation solve the problem of misinformation? | Information Futures Lab, Brown University
September 20, 2022
Is there a place for government regulation to mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? Over the past year, the EU…