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On Tuesday, voters in Georgia went to cast their ballots in primary elections, but many of them found that they could not—or not without a long wait. Voters in the […]
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Twitter is trying to stop people from sharing articles they have not read, in an experiment the company hopes will “promote informed discussion” on social media. In the test, pushed […]
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wdm-post-content wdm-post-grid What role does “the media” play in the spread of misinformation? A literature review published last month in the Annals of the International Communication Association tried to answer […]
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The fast-moving world of Twitter has become the nerve center of the American news cycle — as evidenced by record-breaking downloads and engagement for the service last week. Why it […]
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There’s nothing inherently funny about the novel coronavirus. The latest World Health Organization numbers indicate that more than 383,000 people have died from Covid-19, and the number of confirmed cases […]
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A website that was banned from Facebook rebranded as a pro-Trump news outlet to reach its audience, peddling debunked claims about the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. Natural News was […]
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What happens when two incendiary topics — such as the protests generated by George Floyd’s killing and the spread of COVID-19 — become the source of so many falsehoods at […]
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OXFORD – Would you believe that the coronavirus was developed by a government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or that “patriots” created it to foment a revolution against “big government” […]
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I cannot make sense of what is happening. I say this as a scholar of polluted information, someone who talks and thinks about political toxicity more than I do anything […]
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Last week, Twitter tried something new. When President Trump tweeted that “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” Twitter appended this message […]