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Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
April 21, 2022
My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history. So shortly after we married, we chose to…
Distinct Archetypes of YouTube Politics
April 19, 2022
The following is an essay written by a SSRC Social Data Research Fellow, based on their project. The program was…
America’s internet is splitting along party lines | Axios
by Sara Fischer and Scott Rosenberg
April 6, 2022
New investments flooding partisan media platforms are starting to restructure America's internet business around the nation's deepening political divide. Why…
Use of social media for news doesn’t seem to increase false political beliefs among Mexicans, one study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Hanaa' Tameez
April 5, 2022
In Mexico, social media isn’t the major driver of political misinformation as it’s popularly believed to be, according to a…
Scientists must be free to communicate without politicians’ spin | The Guardian
by Fiona Fox
April 3, 2022
Twenty years ago, when I set up the Science Media Centre, researchers were notably absent from the nation’s airwaves. Frenzies about…
China’s promotion of Russian disinformation indicates where its loyalties lie | CNN
by Simone McCarthy and CNN's Beijing Bureau
March 10, 2022
Beijing (CNN) - In public statements and at international summits, Chinese officials have attempted to stake out a seemingly neutral…
Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem | The Atlantic
by Matthew Hindman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Trevor Davis
February 11, 2022
If you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to…
Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation: a literature review | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Dr. Amy Ross Arguedas, Dr. Craig T. Robertson, Dr. Richard Fletcher, Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
February 4, 2022
Terms like echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation are widely used in public and political debate but not in ways…
National Butterfly Center in Texas shuts down amid right-wing harassment | NPR
by Sharon Pruitt-Young
February 3, 2022
The butterflies will fly no more — or not in public view, anyway. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas,…