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Focus Tag: Politics and Government
Big Tech Is Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws, and Yes, You Should Be Suspicious | The Markup
by Todd Feathers
3 days ago
Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down…
Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques | HKS Misinformation Review
by C.W. Anderson
3 days ago
Propaganda has a history and so does research on it. In other words, the mechanisms and methods through which media…
Measuring the news and its impact on democracy | PNAS
by Duncan J. Watts, David M. Rothschild, and Markus Mobius
4 days ago
Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has generated…
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account | The Guardian
by Julia Carrie Wong
4 days ago
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a…
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
6 days ago
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
Why China’s attempts to stifle foreign media criticism are likely to fail | The Conversation
by Tony Walker
6 days ago
When China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, summoned journalists to the Chinese embassy last week, this was not an occasion…
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens | The Guardian
by Julia Carrie Wong
April 12, 2021
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite…
Podcast: Dr. Atul Gawande on how vax hesitancy impacts herd immunity | Axios
by Axios Re:Cap
April 9, 2021
Nearly one in five American adults is hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, which could make it harder for the…
How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today
by Will Stribling
April 9, 2021
As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…