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How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet | Daily Beast
by Robert Silverman
1 day ago
By mid-afternoon of Jan. 4, it had become increasingly clear that a slew of far-right actors were gearing up for…
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,…
Research note: Examining potential bias in large-scale censored data | HKS Misinformation Review
by Jennifer Allen and Duncan J. Watts
July 28, 2021
We examine potential bias in Facebook’s 10-trillion cell URLs dataset, consisting of URLs shared on its platform and their engagement…
The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel
July 27, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO — The article that appeared online on Feb. 9 began with a seemingly innocuous question about the legal…
Mainstreaming Resentment: YouTube Celebrities and the Rhetoric of White Supremacy | Items
by Cindy Ma
July 26, 2021
Ashli Babbit, the woman shot and killed January 6 by Capitol police officers, “did not look particularly radical,” according to…
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…
Facebook and YouTube are still full of covid misinformation | The Washington Post
by Gerrit De Vynck and Rachel Lerman
July 22, 2021
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter all banned harmful covid-related misinformation as the pandemic took hold throughout the world. But the false claims…
Opinion: Covid-19, vaccine hesitancy and the misinformation conundrum | The Washington Post
by Catherine Rampell
July 21, 2021
It’s hard to teach an algorithm to identify misinformation when humans themselves can’t agree on what misinformation is — and…
Cuba’s internet and journalism blackouts | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
July 19, 2021
On Tuesday, Dina Fernandez, a Cuban YouTuber who goes by the name Dina Stars, was doing an interview on Todo…