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Measuring the effect of Facebook’s downranking interventions against groups and websites that repeatedly share misinformation | HKS Misinformation Review
by Emmanuel M. Vincent, Héloïse Théro, and Shaden Shabayek
June 14, 2022
Facebook has claimed to fight misinformation notably by reducing the virality of posts shared by “repeat offender” websites. The platform…
The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. | The New Yorker
by Sheila Coronel
May 18, 2022
It was 9 P.M., and Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, was pacing back and forth in the newsroom…
The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media | Berkman Klein Center
May 13, 2022
RSVP for this virtual event by Monday, May 16, 3:00 PM ET. Zuccotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street,…
Texas social media “censorship” law reinstated by appeals court | The Texas Tribune
by Andrew Zhang
May 12, 2022
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users…
Anxiety and conflict avoidance keep people from calling out misinformation in messaging groups | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Shraddha Chakradhar
April 28, 2022
You’re in a WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger group with people you know and interact with regularly. Maybe it’s a family…
Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman
by Emily Tamkin
April 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday (19 April) the Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz published an article that confirmed the name of…
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
April 21, 2022
My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history. So shortly after we married, we chose to…
Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok | The Washington Post
by Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell
March 31, 2022
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide…
TikTok stars receive White House briefing on Ukraine | The Washington Post
by Taylor Lorenz
March 11, 2022
On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding…