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After weathering a yearslong political and legal assault, researchers who study disinformation say they see reasons to be cautiously hopeful as their efforts heat up ahead of the 2024 election. […]
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories […]
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Social media has been a connector of people near and far, but it has also fueled political conflict, threatened democratic processes, contributed to the spread of public health misinformation, and […]
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In a time of intense debate about the social and psychological effects of living in an always on, wired world, international opinions about social media’s potential harms are remarkably unified. […]
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In 2024, social media will get small. Not small in influence, of course. As the US weathers an election likely to be both divisive and often divorced from reality, social […]
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Online Content Moderation from the Trenches: Veterans Who Have Fought the Fight | R Street Institute
Online content moderators have a difficult and thankless job: delivering results and determining what you see on the web. But what do they actually do, and how do they do […]
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The first declaration of war came via Telegram. On October 7, at 7:14 a.m. local time, Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades used its Telegram channel to announce the beginning of a coordinated […]
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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers nearly a dozen recommendations for social media companies, Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and others to minimize the […]
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As we near the end of 2023, MediaWell would like to highlight our work from the past year. The essays and articles we have published in 2023 worked to synthesize […]
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Graphika has identified a sustained and coordinated effort to manipulate online conversations about Taiwanese politics ahead of the country’s presidential election in January 2024. The operation was active starting as […]