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How journalists can address misinformation on Telegram | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Bermet Talant
October 14, 2021
Telegram is no stranger to criticism. Created by Russian tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov to counter the censorship and propaganda of…
China to outlaw all news outlets not funded by Communist Party | Intellasia
by Sophia Yan
October 14, 2021
Beijing published a draft law stating that privately funded organisations “shall not engage in news-gathering, editing, and broadcasting”. Officials have…
Small Platforms and the Gray Zones of Deep Extreme Speech
October 13, 2021
Abstract: Recent trends of migration to smaller social media platforms among right wing actors have raised a caution that an…
Vaccine hesitancy in online spaces: A scoping review of the research literature, 2000-2020 | HKS Misinformation Review
by Timothy Neff, Jonas Kaiser, Dariusz Jemielniak, Siobhan Grayson, and Amy Zhang
October 13, 2021
We review 100 articles published from 2000 to early 2020 that research aspects of vaccine hesitancy in online communication spaces…
Job Opportunity: Research Data Scientist | New York University
by New York University
October 11, 2021
Description We are seeking a Researcher - Research Scientist to provide leadership and project management on our new, multilingual research infrastructure to…
It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda. | The Atlantic
by Renée DiResta
October 11, 2021
One Sunday morning in July of last year, a message from an anonymous account appeared on “Bernie or Vest,” a…
Amazon profits from coronavirus conspiracies | Coda Story
by Erica Hellerstein
October 8, 2021
On Monday morning, I was chatting with a friend on WhatsApp when my messages abruptly stopped sending. A massive global…
Frances Haugen says Facebook’s algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why. | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
October 8, 2021
On Sunday night, the primary source for the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files, an investigative series based on internal Facebook documents,…
Facebook’s scandals and outage test users’ frenemy relationship | The Conversation
by Elizabeth Stoycheff
October 8, 2021
When Facebook was down for most of the day on Oct. 4, 2021, did you miss it, were you relieved…