On Thursday, top executives from Exxon Mobil, BP America, Chevron, and Shell—some of America’s largest oil companies—testified for the first…
Archive
Focus Tag: Regulation
A tale of two Facebook leaks | Columbia Journalism Review
by Paroma Soni
November 2, 2021
In April, several months before a Facebook employee named Frances Haugen became the most famous whistleblower in the company’s history,…
Exclusive: Twitter takes aim at climate misinformation during COP26 | Axios
by Sara Fischer
November 2, 2021
Twitter on Monday said it will be making authoritative information about climate change more accessible to users during this year's United…
Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing | Gizmodo
by Molly Taft and Emily Atkin
October 28, 2021
On Thursday, a cadre of Big Oil CEOs will testify at a examining whether their companies engaged in a campaign…
Misinformation interventions are common, divisive, and poorly understood | HKS Misinformation Review
by Emily Saltz, Soubhik Barari, Claire Leibowicz, and Claire Wardle
October 27, 2021
Social media platforms label, remove, or otherwise intervene on thousands of posts containing misleading or inaccurate information every day. Who…
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation | The Washington Post
by Jeremy B. Merril and Will Oremus
October 26, 2021
Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond…
Facebook Papers: ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’ | The Atlantic
by Adrienne LaFrance
October 26, 2021
Before I tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the White House—and how…
The coup in Sudan and a dismal moment for press freedom across North Africa | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
October 26, 2021
Yesterday—after two years of promising, fragile transition toward democracy—Sudan fell victim to a military coup. Military leaders seized power, arresting…
In India, Facebook Struggles to Combat Misinformation and Hate Speech | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel and Davey Alba
October 25, 2021
On Feb. 4, 2019, a Facebook researcher created a new user account to see what it was like to experience…
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…