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Covid-19 vaccine misinformation and narratives surrounding Black communities on social media | First Draft
by Kaylin Dodson, Jacquelyn Mason, and Rory Smith
October 15, 2021
Over 75 per cent of US adults have received at least one Covid-19 vaccination. Yet vaccination rates vary widely across…
The “Phone Disaster”: How WeChat became digital traps for Chinese Uyghurs | Rest of World
by Darren Byler
October 14, 2021
The young Uyghur man, whom I’ll refer to as Qeyser, saw a phone for the first time in 2005, when…
Racist ‘white replacement theory’ goes mainstream with Republicans | Axios
by Dan Primack and Russell Contreras
October 1, 2021
A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting "white replacement theory," a decades-old conspiracy theory that's animated terrorist attacks,…
Spanish-language Covid disinformation is aimed at Latinos as delta surges | NBC Latino
by Carmen Sesin
September 7, 2021
On a recent show on Actualidad, a Miami AM radio station, the host was promoting a false cure for Covid-19:…
Anti-Asian Sentiment Before Covid-19 | Digital Democracies Institute
August 30, 2021
As many media accounts have recounted, Stop AAPI Hate reported that anti-Asian violence soared during the first wave of the…
Tackling online hate speech one emoji at a time | Oxford Internet Institute
by Hannah Rose Kirk
August 24, 2021
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) exposes critical problems in how emoji-based online hate is tackled, with OII…
Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics | HKS Misinformation Review
by Rachel Kuo and Alice Marwick
August 13, 2021
This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions…
Twitter’s racist algorithm is also ageist, ableist and Islamaphobic, researchers find | NBC
by Kevin Collier
August 12, 2021
A Twitter image-cropping algorithm that went viral last year when users discovered it preferred white people to Black people was…
Indigenous Peoples still face severe challenges due to COVID-19 | ReliefWeb
by UN Human Rights Council
August 6, 2021
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Cali Tzay, issues the following statement to mark…