Facebook and Twitter suspended President Trump’s accounts after the violence on Capitol Hill, on January 6, in a bid to…
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How Biden Can Take the High Road on Misinformation | Lawfare
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the ways mis- and disinformation corrupt public narratives and shape public opinion. False…