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Focus Tag: Politics and Government
A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out | The New York Times
by Matthew Rosenberg and Julian E. Barnes
8 hours ago
WASHINGTON — For some of President Trump’s loudest cheerleaders, it was a story too good to check out: Black Lives…
The Post-pandemic Future of Trust in Digital Governance | Centre for International Governance Innovation
by Teresa Scassa
1 day ago
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, “trust” was a key concept for governments as they asked citizens to make a…
What women in Congress want from Facebook | Vox
by Rebecca Heilweil
1 day ago
About 100 female lawmakers from across the world have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl…
Trends in Online Foreign Influence Efforts | Empirical Studies of Conflict
by Diego A. Martin, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Julia Ilhardt
4 days ago
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) create novel opportunities for a wide range of political actors. Foreign governments have used social…
Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University
August 7, 2020
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading…
In Congress’s big tech hearing, look beyond ‘technology policy’ | Brookings
by Alex Engler
July 31, 2020
On July 29, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing with some of the nation’s top technology CEOs.…
Trump Can’t Ban TikTok, but He Can Hurt Its Parent Company, ByteDance | Foreign Policy
by Beau Barnes, S. Nathan Park & Wade Weems
July 27, 2020
The wild popularity of TikTok, the app best known for videos of lip-syncing teens, is re-igniting the debate among U.S.…
How users see Facebook’s labels will determine their effectiveness | Poynter
by Harrison Mantas and Susan Benkelman
July 24, 2020
What does a label really mean? This week, Facebook attached “Get Voting Information” links to posts by both President Donald…