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Comparing Platform Research API Requirements | Tech Policy Press

March 23, 2023

Platform researchers are living through a strange moment– a pseudo-post-API age. On the one hand, there is no need to convince anyone–in Washington, Brussels, or even Silicon Valley–that using platform […]
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House panel votes to advance bill empowering Biden to ban TikTok | CNN Business

March 2, 2023

A powerful House committee voted to advance legislation on Wednesday that would make it easier to ban TikTok from the United States and crack down on other China-related economic activity, […]
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TikTok just announced the data it’s willing to share. What’s missing? | FSI

February 28, 2023

Is the new TikTok API going to be good enough for social media researchers? In 2022, we analyzed over 100 hours of TikTok videos as part of the Stanford Internet […]
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TikTok’s Secret Sauce | Knight First Amendment Institute

January 30, 2023

A project studying algorithmic amplification and distortion, and exploring ways to minimize harmful amplifying or distorting effects What made TikTok such a success? A commonly given reason is that the […]
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Born in the fire: What we can learn from how digital publishers in the Global South approach platforms | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

October 28, 2022

Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global […]
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Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation

October 19, 2022

The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media […]
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2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series

September 19, 2022

Beyond Facebook and Twitter: The Impact of New and Niche Platforms For years, Facebook and Twitter dominated scholarly research about the social media landscape. But in the last few years, […]
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Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch

September 15, 2022

Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms and their respective safety, privacy and moderation failures in recent […]
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On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times

August 17, 2022

In Germany, TikTok accounts impersonated prominent political figures during the country’s last national election. In Colombia, misleading TikTok posts falsely attributed a quotation from one candidate to a cartoon villain […]
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The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. | The New Yorker

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 of Rappler, the news site she co-founded a decade ago. […]
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