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  • Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants | The New York Times

    February 14, 2023

    SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, like other social media platforms, spent years expanding its efforts to tackle misinformation after the 2016 election. It hired policy experts and content moderators and invested […]

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  • Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots | WIRED

    February 13, 2023

    On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access that lets people build bots to automatically post and respond […]

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  • Elon Musk’s Twitter fails first EU disinformation test | POLITICO

    February 13, 2023

    Twitter failed to complete its first European Union test on how it deals with disinformation, just a few months before the bloc’s major content law — the Digital Services Act […]

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  • Internet for Trust Conference | Forum on Information & Democracy

    February 13, 2023

    On February 21 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Forum on Information and Democracy holds a session on the implementation of democratic safeguards in the information and communication space. The […]

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  • U.S. States Will Dominate Tech Policy This Year and Next | Tech Policy Press

    February 9, 2023

    Earlier this month, President Joe Biden published an op-ed calling for Congress to pass sweeping new legislation regulating technology platforms. Despite this push from the president, the chances of significant […]

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  • Content Moderation as Systems Thinking | Harvard Law Review

    February 7, 2023

    The stylized picture of content moderation that forms the basis for most regulatory and academic discussion of online speech governance is misleading and incomplete. That picture depicts content moderation as […]

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  • Reflecting on the State of Digital Media Data Research

    February 6, 2023

    In January 2023, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned TikTok on state-owned devices, effectively halting university research on TikTok. And in February, Twitter announced it would […]

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  • GW IDDP: Research Spotlight Webinar Featuring Jeffrey Lees

    February 1, 2023

    In his project “Real Time Monitoring of 2022 US Election-Related Misinformation and its Psycho-Social Correlates on Twitter” Jeffrey Lees seeks to answer the question what is the role of superusers? […]

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  • EU Disinfo Lab: A CERN for the Information Environment

    February 1, 2023

    Alicia Wanless, Director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will present during this EU DisinfoLab webinar her study, co-written with Jacob N. […]

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  • Your platform is not an ecosystem | Crooked Timber

    December 16, 2022

    Another day, another exhortation to join an “ecosystem” that’s anything but. I could pick a hundred examples, but one that recently caught my eye was an ad placed in the […]

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