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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…
China has censored a top health information platform | MIT Technology Review
by Zeyi Yang
August 15, 2022
China has censored DXY, the country's leading health information platform. On August 9, DXY fell silent across social media, where…
Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser and Hana Kiros
June 29, 2022
Google says in its terms of service that the company reserves the right to remove any content that violates the…
Living by Protocol | Harvard Art Museum
June 15, 2022
The use of social media has become a daily routine for billions of people throughout the last decade. The problems…
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…