News Item QAnon conspiracy theory gaining ground in UK, analysis shows | The Guardian By Niamh McIntyre on September 18, 2020
News Item What Even Is ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’ on Platforms? | WIRED By Shannon McGregor on September 17, 2020 Credibility and Trust Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Facebook’s latest hollow effort to fight climate change denial | Ars Technica By Kate Cox on September 16, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Sustained Online Amplification of COVID-19 Elites in the United States | Cornell University By Ryan J. Gallagher, Larissa Doroshenko, Sarah Shugars, David Lazer, and Brooke Foucault Welles on September 15, 2020 Credibility and Trust
Research Review Algorithms, Automation, and Misinformation On September 16, 2020 Algorithms and Automation
News Item But Facebook’s Not a Country: How to Interpret Human Rights Law for Social Media Companies | Yale Journal on Regulation By Susan Benesch on September 14, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item The Q-ing of the West by Helmut K. Anheier & Andrea Roemmele | Project Syndicate By Helmut K. Anheier & Andrea Roemmele on September 11, 2020
News Item Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement | Network Contagion Research Institute By Joel Finkelstein, Pamela Paresky, John K. Donohue, John Farmer, Alex Goldenberg, Sean Stevens, and Lee Jussim on September 14, 2020
News Item Russia’s not so little election helpers | The Boston Globe By Steven Livingston and W. Lance Bennett on September 14, 2020 Credibility and Trust Targeted Disinformation
News Item Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers | SpringerLink By Kazutoshi Sasahara, Wen Chen, Hao Peng, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer on September 11, 2020 Algorithms and Automation Credibility and Trust