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Forceful vaccine messages backfire with holdouts – how can it be done better? | The Conversation
by S. Shyam Sundar
5 days ago
With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world…
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | WSJ
by Jeff Horwitz
September 14, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with…
Germany Braces for Election Disinformation on Social Media | Foreign Policy
by Jessica Bateman
September 14, 2021
BERLIN—One Saturday last month, thousands of anti-lockdown protesters stormed my quiet neighborhood, crashing into the weekly farmers’ market with signs…
Thousands of posts around January 6 riots go missing from Facebook transparency tool | POLITICO
by Mark Scott
September 2, 2021
Scores of Facebook posts from the days before and after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in Washington are missing.…
YouTube’s Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed, Experts Warn | Scientific American
by Grant Currin
August 31, 2021
When someone searches YouTube for a health-related term such as “COVID-19,” most results will now prominently feature content from government…
How Local Newsrooms Can Better Connect with Conservative and Right-Leaning Audiences | Center for Media Engagement
by Marley Duchovnay and Gina M. Masullo
August 31, 2021
The Center for Media Engagement partnered with Trusting News and 27 local newsrooms to find out how news organizations can…
Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans | Pew Research Center
by Jeffrey Gottfried and Jacob Liedke
August 31, 2021
In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut…
What the Pfizer-approval story says about our media ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
August 26, 2021
In recent weeks, amid broader questions about the surge of the Delta coronavirus variant in the US and the vaccination…
“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” | Columbia Journalism Review
by Scott Winter
August 24, 2021
Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In…