News Item Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | WSJ By Jeff Horwitz on September 13, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Germany Braces for Election Disinformation on Social Media | Foreign Policy By Jessica Bateman on September 13, 2021
News Item How ‘engagement’ makes you vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation on social media | The Conversation By Filippo Menczer on September 10, 2021 Algorithms and Automation
News Item An Australian court ruling makes publishers legally responsible for every idiot Facebook user who leaves a comment | Nieman Journalism Lab By Joshua Benton on September 8, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
Event CDCS Colloquium: Social Media and the Shape of “Man” | Annenberg School for Communication October 18, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item News sites are liable for defamatory Facebook comments, rules Australia’s High Court | The Verge By James Vincent on September 8, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How Facebook Relies on Accenture to Scrub Toxic Content | The New York Times By Adam Satariano and Mike Isaac on August 31, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Facebook “transparency report” turns out to be anything but | Columbia Journalism Review By Matthew Ingram on August 26, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans | Pew Research Center By Jeffrey Gottfried and Jacob Liedke on August 30, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item Reddit takes a teach-the-controversy approach to pandemic and vaccines | Ars Technica By Jon Brodkin on August 26, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance