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‘Democracy on the line’: Brazil’s election and the Bolsonaro disinformation ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review
Brazilians will return to voting booths on October 30 to decide a heated presidential race, with polls showing that the…
Yunkang Yang
Dr. Yunkang Yang is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University. He received…
Andrew Thompson
My research studies how racial demographic changes alter political perceptions and democratic commitments, how elites use racial messages to garner…
Barack Obama Takes On a New Role: Fighting Disinformation | The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — In 2011, President Barack Obama swept into Silicon Valley and yukked it up with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s…
Maria Ressa: How Disinformation Manipulates Elections | The Atlantic
In the Philippines, we’re 33 days before our presidential elections. Filipinos are going to the poll and we are choosing…
How social media companies help African governments abuse “disinformation laws” to target critics | Rest of World
Around the world, internet users are caught between governments’ efforts to regulate online harms and social media platforms, which alternate…
Tech millionaire Steve Kirsch went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader | MIT Technology Review
In the early days of the pandemic, as billions of dollars poured into the hunt for novel treatments and vaccines,…
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | WSJ
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with…
How harassment keeps women politicians offline in Uganda | Rest of World
Last year, the Electoral Commission of Uganda declared that the January 14, 2021 presidential elections would be “scientific,” meaning that…