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Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and Beyond | The Cyber Policy Institute
by Daniel Arnaudo, Samantha Bradshaw, Hui Hui Ooi, Kaleigh Schwalbe, Vera Zakem, Amanda Zink
3 days ago
Over the past few years, the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Stanford Internet Observatory…
Anonymous hack of Epik web services reveals who’s behind Proud Boys websites | The Washington Post
by Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg and Hannah Allam
5 days ago
Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and…
Even Some Health Care Workers Refuse To Get The COVID-19 Vaccine | NPR
by Deepa Shivaram
September 20, 2021
As new data shows 1 in 500 Americans has died from COVID-19 and the delta variant continues to surge across…
Covid-19: ‘Vaccine misinformation a dilemma for young people’ | BBC News
by BBC News
September 20, 2021
"Misinformation" is creating a "real dilemma" for young people considering whether they should take the Covid-19 vaccine, Northern Ireland's mental…
Facebook steps up fight against climate misinformation – but critics say effort falls short | The Guardian
by Kari Paul
September 17, 2021
Facebook has announced new efforts to combat climate crisis misinformation on its platform, including by expanding its climate science center…
The US government’s comic approach to information warfare | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
by Thomas Gaulkin
September 17, 2021
Internet feeds swarm with cats and bots and trolls. Malicious posts, disguised on behalf of foreign agents trying to sow…
Hochul tells Facebook to ‘clean up the act’ on abortion misinformation after Texas law | TheHill
by Justine Coleman
September 15, 2021
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) called on Facebook to "clean up the act" on abortion misinformation on Monday, as…
Lies and Democracy | Knight First Amendment Institute
September 14, 2021
“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one,…
Facebook sent flawed data to misinformation researchers | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
September 13, 2021
More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted with…