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How Biden Can Take the High Road on Misinformation | Lawfare
by Alex Engler
December 18, 2020
In his last weeks in office, President Trump has dug in his heels on the annual defense spending bill, promising…
American Elites Still Don’t Understand COVID-19 | The Atlantic
by Derek Thompson
December 14, 2020
The United States has been overwhelmed by vectors of misinformation throughout the pandemic. But it’s not just Donald Trump, many…
Opinion : ‘How Many Fact Checkers Do They Have?’ | The New York Times
by Charlie Warzel
December 10, 2020
In the days after the election, several senior Biden campaign workers talked with me about their public confrontation with Facebook,…
Who Will Win the 2020 Meme War?
October 27, 2020
The new viral battlefield Since 2016, a battle has been waged for the soul of social media, with tech companies…
Butterfly Attack: Operation Blaxit | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brandi Collins-Dexter
October 23, 2020
Over the course of 3 years, a mix of pranksters and extremists (right wing) launched a butterfly attack campaign as…
COVID-19 and the politicisation of medical preprints on Twitter: Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Data | Journal of Medical Internet Research
by Aleksandra Urman, Stefania Ionescu, David Garcia, and Anikó Hannák
October 22, 2020
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been willing to share their results quickly to speed up the…
What Even Is ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’ on Platforms? | WIRED
by Shannon McGregor
September 18, 2020
Earlier this week, Twitter and Facebook took action to suspend and remove accounts associated with Turning Point Action, an affiliate…
Ron Wyden, Section 230, and the fight to hold Big Tech accountable | Vox
by Sara Morrison
August 7, 2020
Sen. Ron Wyden is ready to send the CEO of Facebook to prison, and he has the bill to do…
Digital Disinformation: Jane Lytvynenko, Buzzfeed News | Data & Society | American Press Institute
July 28, 2020
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the ways mis- and disinformation corrupt public narratives and shape public opinion. False…