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A Safe Harbor for Platform Research | Knight First Amendment Institute
by Alex Abdo, Ramya Krishnan, Stephanie Krent, Evan Welber Falcón, and Andrew Keane Woods
2 days ago
Social media platforms influence public discourse in profound ways. Billions of users worldwide and hundreds of millions in the United…
Chinese state media Facebook ads are linked to changes in news coverage of China worldwide | HKS Misinformation Review
by Arjun M. Tambe and Toni Friedman
4 days ago
We studied the relationship between Facebook advertisements from Chinese state media on the global media environment by examining the link…
The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction | Nature Reviews Psychology
by Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook, Philipp Schmid, Lisa K. Fazio, Nadia Brashier, Panayiota Kendeou, Emily K. Vraga & Michelle A. Amazeen
January 12, 2022
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the…
The emergencies of climate and democracy are linked | Columbia Journalism Review
by Mark Hertsgaard
January 6, 2022
A year ago today, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy were fleeing for their lives as a violent mob swarmed the…
Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication
December 28, 2021
Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its…
Broadcast indecency may offer a path forward for social media regulation | Brookings
by Phil Napoli
December 16, 2021
The troubling information provided by Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen continues to generate new insights into the failure of the social…
European Democracy and Counter-Disinformation: Toward a New Paradigm? | Carnegie Europe
by Sophie Vériter
December 15, 2021
Disinformation has become a central subject of debate and concern in Europe. Influence operations have particularly thrived in the context…
A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France | Center for Democracy & Technology
December 15, 2021
A newly released report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in…
In South Korea, Big Tech’s power struggle with regulators is way ahead of the U.S. | Rest of World
by Steven Borowiec
December 14, 2021
South Korea has left hard cash in the dust. The country is a virtually friction-free, digital payments dream, where just…