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Facebook has beefed up its ‘oversight board’, but any new powers are illusory | The Guardian
by Emily Bell
4 days ago
Any day now the Facebook Oversight Board, the social media company’s review mechanism for decisions on deletion of content and…
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause and the media’s role in communicating risk | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jason Allsop
4 days ago
Early yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that the US pause…
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account | The Guardian
by Julia Carrie Wong
4 days ago
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a…
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
6 days ago
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
Facebook’s New Target in the Misinformation War: Climate Lies | Bloomberg
by Kurt Wagner
6 days ago
In the midst of the heated U.S. presidential race last summer, with hypercharged scrutiny of partisan propaganda on social media,…
How Newsrooms, Journalists, and Their Peers Can Combat Online Violence | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Elisa Lees Munoz
6 days ago
By now, those of us working in news media know what online violence looks like. It manifests as sexist abuse,…
Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Platform | WIRED
by Cecilia D'Anastasio
April 9, 2021
Twitch is finally coming to terms with its responsibility as a king-making microcelebrity machine, not just a service or a…
How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today
by Will Stribling
April 9, 2021
As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…
“Decoding Hate” Podcast Series | Decoding Hate
by Katie Pentney
April 8, 2021
This six-episode podcast series explores the interplay between freedom of expression, hate speech and artificial intelligence (AI). While covering these…