On December 20, 2019 Twitter announced the removal of 88,000 accounts managed by Smaat, a digital marketing company based in…
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Russian disinformation network that smeared Hillary Clinton also spread false information about Marie Yovanovitch | The Washington Post
by Isaac Stanley-Becker
December 18, 2019
The story that appeared on the Hill website on March 20 was startling. Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine,…
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics | WSJ
by Emily Glazer, Deepa Seetharaman, and Jeff Horwitz
December 17, 2019
Facebook’s senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company’s effect on U.S. politics, with…
On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths
December 10, 2019
What is the sound of a thousand social media bots clapping? For two years, from 2015 to 2017, the Russian…
Devin Nunes Is Living in a Fantasyland | The Atlantic
by David Frum
November 25, 2019
Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, opened today with a statement attacking media reporting on the Trump…
How to Mainstream Neo-Nazis: A Lesson from Ukraine’s New Government | bellingcat
by bellingcat
October 21, 2019
On October 13, photographs started circulating across social media showing a man resembling Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk on stage…
Facebook says it won’t remove politicians’ posts for breaking its rules | The Verge
by Adi Robertson
September 25, 2019
Facebook says politicians don’t have to follow its normal posting guidelines, unless they’re running an ad. The company clarified the…
Samuel Woolley
February 19, 2019
Dr. Samuel Woolley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the program director for propaganda research at…
David Karpf
February 11, 2019