On Oct. 4, the Council of the European Union (EU) approved the new Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU’s new…
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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and…
Brazilian Official Granted Power to Order Removal of Misinformation Online | The New York Times
Brazilian authorities, grappling with a torrent of online misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election, granted the nation’s elections chief…
Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have…
What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
Parallel Public Spheres: Influence Operations In The 2022 Philippine Elections | Media Manipulation Casebook
This report examines the characteristics and consequences of influence operations in the 2022 presidential election in the Philippines. The report…
Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
‘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…
Social Media Transparency Rules, Zauderer Standard Head to Supreme Court | Lawfare
In 2021, Florida passed SB 7072, a pathbreaking (in a bad way) social media speech law. This May, the U.S.…
Can regulation solve the problem of misinformation? | Information Futures Lab, Brown University
Is there a place for government regulation to mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? Over the past year, the EU…