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  • Brazilian Official Granted Power to Order Removal of Misinformation Online | The New York Times

    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 unilateral power to order tech companies to remove many online […]

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  • Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    October 28, 2022

    As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have rushed to fill gaps in capacity. They bring with them […]

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  • What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab

    October 28, 2022

    Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining. And they sometimes turn out to be true. Today, information […]

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  • Parallel Public Spheres: Influence Operations In The 2022 Philippine Elections | Media Manipulation Casebook

    October 28, 2022

    This report examines the characteristics and consequences of influence operations in the 2022 presidential election in the Philippines. The report makes three main claims. […] Source: Parallel Public Spheres: Influence […]

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  • Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation

    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 election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media […]

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  • ‘Democracy on the line’: Brazil’s election and the Bolsonaro disinformation ecosystem | Columbia Journalism Review

    October 13, 2022

    Brazilians will return to voting booths on October 30 to decide a heated presidential race, with polls showing that the right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has directed the country’s slide […]

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  • Social Media Transparency Rules, Zauderer Standard Head to Supreme Court | Lawfare

    September 29, 2022

    In 2021, Florida passed SB 7072, a pathbreaking (in a bad way) social media speech law. This May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a significant […]

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  • 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 Commission’s Digital Services Act, and the Online Safety Bill in […]

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  • 2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series

    September 19, 2022

    Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in recent American history. They dominate cultural and […]

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  • 2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series

    September 19, 2022

    Using Social Media to Drive the Political Conversation Social media is a key tool for candidates and lawmakers to share policy positions, connect with voters, and fundraise. This seminar will […]

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