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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation | ProPublica
by Craig Silverman,Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao, and Anna Klühspies
October 31, 2022
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
by Jack Nicas
October 28, 2022
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
by Victoria Smith, Jon Bateman, and Dean Jackson
October 28, 2022
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
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
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
by Jonathan Corpus Ong, Rossine Fallorina, Jose Mari Lanuza, Ferdinand Sanchez II, and Nicole Curato
October 28, 2022
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
by Dam Hee Kim, Anjana Susarla, and Scott Shackelford
October 19, 2022
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
by Jem Bartholomew
October 13, 2022
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
by Corbin Barthold
September 29, 2022
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
September 20, 2022
Is there a place for government regulation to mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? Over the past year, the EU…