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Cable TV and Coronavirus: How Americans perceive the outbreak and view media coverage differ by main news source | Pew Research Center
by Mark Jurkowitz and Amy Mitchell
April 1, 2020
Coverage of COVID-19 has dominated the news and resulted in skyrocketing ratings for the nation’s cable news networks. And according…
Facebook commits $100M to support local news orgs hit by COVID-19 crisis | TechCrunch
by Anthony Ha
March 31, 2020
Facebook announced this morning that it will be offering another $100 million worth of support to local newsrooms that are…
Tech Giants Prepared for 2016-Style Meddling. But the Threat Has Changed. | The New York Times
by Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel, and Nicole Perlroth
March 31, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO — The day after the New Hampshire primary last month, Facebook’s security team removed a network of fake…
Can Trump’s daily disinformation show be saved? Yes — turn it into a vector for the truth | Salon
by Dan Froomkin
March 27, 2020
The nation's most eminent media critics are virtually unanimous that television networks should stop the live broadcasting of the White House's…
PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation | PEN America
by PEN America
March 26, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic heightens nerves, disinformation—defined as information being spread with the intention to mislead–has found fertile ground. In…
What will the coronavirus pandemic mean for the business of news? | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
March 25, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic will impact every part of our lives and societies, including our news media. Even in the best…
Snopes to scale back fact-checking due to overwhelming COVID-19 misinformation | The Verge
by Jon Porter
March 24, 2020
Fact-checking organization Snopes has been forced to scale back its routine content production and special projects, as the amount of…
Call for Papers: COVID-19 & Misinfodemics | HKS Misinformation Review
by HKS Misinformation Review
March 24, 2020
Urgent Call for Papers: COVID-19 & Misinfodemics We invite concise, empirical papers (peer-reviewed, 3000 words) or evidence-based commentaries (edited, 1500…
WhatsApp tests new feature to fight misinformation: Search the web | TechCrunch
by Manish Singh
March 23, 2020
WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging platforms on the planet, is testing a feature that could make it simpler for its…