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  • Reddit goes to war with its volunteer moderators | Columbia Journalism Review

    June 27, 2023

    If you use the internet, you may think of Reddit—if you think of it at all—as a largely harmless repository of discussion forums about nerdy topics like Star Wars. Last […]

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  • Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps | The Verge

    June 8, 2023

    Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access […]

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  • Humans and algorithms work together — so study them together | Nature

    May 11, 2023

    Later this year, the US Supreme Court will rule on a case with profound implications for society and technology. The case centres on Nohemi Gonzalez, a US student who in […]

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  • It’s Time to Acknowledge Big Tech Was Always at Odds with Journalism | Tech Policy Press

    May 9, 2023

    This year will be one of the bloodiest for digital media. BuzzFeed News is shutting down, following several layoffs at Vox Media, Insider, NBC News, Gannett, and CNN announced in […]

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  • “They’re Coming to Take over Our Country”: Researching Global Circuits of Racist Misinformation

    April 17, 2023

    Abstract “The others are coming. They are coming to get us, take over our country, colonize us, and replace us. They’re an existential threat.” These types of racist logics are […]

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  • Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots | WIRED

    February 13, 2023

    On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access that lets people build bots to automatically post and respond […]

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  • Elon Musk’s Twitter fails first EU disinformation test | POLITICO

    February 13, 2023

    Twitter failed to complete its first European Union test on how it deals with disinformation, just a few months before the bloc’s major content law — the Digital Services Act […]

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  • Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a Problem | Annenberg School of Communication

    February 7, 2023

    A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it. […]

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  • 2022 Midterms: NYU Center for Social Media & Politics Seminar Series

    September 19, 2022

    Media Consumption, Misinformation, and Polarization Social media has transformed the media and political landscape, but the vast majority of Americans still get their news from traditional sources such as local […]

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  • Tomás Gold

    September 6, 2022

    Tomás Gold is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and a Kellogg Institute fellow at the University of Notre Dame. His research is focused on explaining the dynamic interactions between political […]

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