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Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project | Bloomberg
by Kurt Wagner and Naomi Nix
9 hours ago
Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social…
Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
9 hours ago
Twitter announced today it’s partnering with news organizations The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand its efforts focused on highlighting reliable…
The Justice Department’s New Media Protections Are (Mostly) a Promise, Not Yet a Reality | Knight First Amendment Institute
by Anna Diakun and Jameel Jaffer
2 days ago
Last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced broad new limitations on federal prosecutors’ use of compulsory legal process—including subpoenas, warrants, and court…
“Fake news” laws are failing to stem Covid-19 misinformation in Southeast Asia | Rest of World
by Peter Guest, Febriana Firdaus and Tammy Danan
6 days ago
As the drummer of the Indonesian punk band Superman Is Dead, I Gede Ari Astina, better known as Jerinx, always…
Big tech has a vaccine misinformation problem – here’s what a social media expert recommends | The Conversation
by Anjana Susarla
6 days ago
With less than half the United States population fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and as the delta variant sweeps the nation,…
How Australia’s fickleness on COVID vaccines is perpetuating global vaccine inequity | The Conversation
by Sarah Joseph and Gregory Dore
6 days ago
Despite assurances from Prime Minister Scott Morrison that Australia was at “the front of the queue” for COVID-19 vaccines, Australia’s…
Vaccine mandates got a huge US push. What’s next for misinformation? | First Draft
by First Draft
6 days ago
Yesterday, the US Department of Veterans Affairs became the first federal agency to announce that its frontline medical workers will be required…
Preventing the next indigenous healthcare crisis | MedCity News
by Morgan Haynes
July 27, 2021
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – at least, according to philosopher George Santayana. Most…
Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
July 23, 2021
The Facebook engineer was itching to know why his date hadn’t responded to his messages. Perhaps there was a simple…