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Facebook Papers: The radical chiropractor Facebook banned and then studied. | Slate
by Nitish Pahwa
January 12, 2022
On Sept. 28, 2006, a young chiropractor, then about 30 years old, signed up for Facebook, where he posted about…
Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication
December 28, 2021
Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its…
EU struggles to fight disinformation within | EUobserver
by Eszter Zalan
December 22, 2021
The EU is likely to remain toothless against politicians, governments or public institutions in member states that spread disinformation. …
Social media as a crisis discipline | Institute for Rebooting Social Media
by Emily Hong and Neeraj Chandra
December 20, 2021
How can the science of catastrophic collective behavior provide insight into the woes of social media platforms? On Thursday, November…
Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review
by Sahar Massachi
December 20, 2021
Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. It’s the greatest city…
Broadcast indecency may offer a path forward for social media regulation | Brookings
by Phil Napoli
December 16, 2021
The troubling information provided by Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen continues to generate new insights into the failure of the social…
Call for Participants: True Costs of Misinformation Workshop | Shorenstein Center
by Shorenstein Center
December 15, 2021
What are the financial, social, and human costs of misinformation? What is the price that businesses, hospitals, civil society groups,…
True Costs of Misinformation Workshop | Harvard Shorenstein Center
December 14, 2021
What are the financial, social, and human costs of misinformation? What is the price that businesses, hospitals, civil society groups,…
Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists. | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Will Oremus, Craig Timberg and Nitasha Tiku
December 14, 2021
Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces, its new live audio chat feature, some employees asked how…