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What you see on social media isnāt there by accident. Itās there because of an algorithm, the programs that use data to decide what content will keep you online for […]
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As President Biden calls on global leaders to go big on climate change, an advocacy group is warning that misinformation on social media poses a potent threat to his agenda. […]
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Before there was a term called media literacy education, there was an interdisciplinary group of writers and thinkers who taught people to guard themselves against the manipulative power of language. […]
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You might know the feeling: You see your aunt, cousin, or friend share something on Facebook, but you doubt the information is true. And if that information is about a […]
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The internet wasn’t built with safeguards in place to hold content accountable for being truthful. Yet decades later, there are still no good checks and balances as to whether something […]
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In 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a network of accounts on Twitter, which had previously posted narratives friendly to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), switched their messaging […]
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Catherine didnāt have much to do with mainstream medicine. Social media pushed her down a rabbit hole ā but also dragged her back out again. Catherineās family believed in alternative […]
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In March, Twitter put its foot down: users who repeatedly spread false information about COVID-19 vaccines will have their accounts suspended or shut down. It was a new front in […]
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The exponential increase in demand for and dissemination of information about COVIDā19 means the pandemic has been accompanied by an āinfodemicā. This overabundance of accurate and inaccurate information is not […]
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On the night after the November 3 election, hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump filled the parking lot of an election center in Arizonaās Maricopa County, where officials were still […]