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Focus Tag: Social Networks
Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation | MIT Sloan
by Sara Brown
January 11, 2022
Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it. Understanding why people believe…
Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review
by Sahar Massachi
December 20, 2021
Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. It’s the greatest city…
How China Uses Contractors to Spread Propaganda on Facebook and Twitter | The New York Times
by Muyi Xiao, Paul Mozur and Gray Beltran
December 20, 2021
Flood global social media with fake accounts used to advance an authoritarian agenda. Make them look real and grow their…
Islamic extremists sidestep Facebook’s content police | POLITICO
by Mark Scott
December 20, 2021
Photos of beheadings, extremist propaganda and violent hate speech related to Islamic State and the Taliban were shared for months…
Investigating Facebook: A Fractious Relationship with Academia | Financial Times
by Madhumita Murgia, Cristina Criddle, and Hannah Murphy
December 6, 2021
Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics…
Cord Blood and Medical Misinformation: The Big Business of Unproven Stem Cell Treatments | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Jennifer Nilsen
November 18, 2021
David Greene, who lost his medical license in 2009 after botched surgeries resulted in several deaths, is a marketing CEO…
Social media misinformation is bad in English. But it’s far worse in Spanish. | The Washington Post
by Stephanie Valencia
October 29, 2021
The release of internal Facebook documents showing that the platform isn’t doing enough to stop a flood of lies and misinformation…
Call for Papers: Social Media + Society | SAGE Journals
by Sage
October 8, 2021
Call for Papers Political Influencers Special Issue Editors: Martin J. Riedl (University of Texas-Austin), Josephine Lukito (University of Texas-Austin) and…
Russia is building its own kind of sovereign internet — with help from Apple and Google | The Conversation
by William Partlett
October 5, 2021
On September 17, the first day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, Apple and Google agreed to demands from the Russian government…