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  • EU struggles to fight disinformation within | EUobserver

    December 22, 2021

    The EU is likely to remain toothless against politicians, governments or public institutions in member states that spread disinformation.   “The problem is, what if the government is entirely or […]

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  • Social media as a crisis discipline | Institute for Rebooting Social Media

    December 20, 2021

    How can the science of catastrophic collective behavior provide insight into the woes of social media platforms? On Thursday, November 4, the Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media hosted an […]

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  • Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review

    December 20, 2021

    Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. It’s the greatest city in the world. Millions of people can do things their parents […]

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  • Broadcast indecency may offer a path forward for social media regulation | Brookings

    December 16, 2021

    The troubling information provided by Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen continues to generate new insights into the failure of the social media platform to police bad actors and moderate harmful content. […]

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  • Call for Participants: True Costs of Misinformation Workshop | 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, and schools pay for false or misleading information online? How […]

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  • 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, and schools pay for false or misleading information online? How […]

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  • Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists. | The Washington Post

    December 14, 2021

    Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces, its new live audio chat feature, some employees asked how the company planned to make sure the service didn’t become […]

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  • European regulation of online disinformation may be a “game changer” in 2022 | Columbia Journalism Review

    December 10, 2021

    After several years of asking the tech giants to regulate themselves on mis/disinformation and a range of other topics, the European Union is expected to issue new laws by mid […]

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  • Platform Governance: Trust and Transparency | Yale Law School Information Society Project

    December 8, 2021

    Civil society and government stakeholders have very low trust in industry, based on repeated violations of the latter’s own promises. Concurrently, information asymmetry is an initial hurdle to both studying […]

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  • Investigating Facebook: A Fractious Relationship with Academia | Financial Times

    December 6, 2021

    Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics to do research on Facebook. His goal was to investigate […]

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