Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we…
Focus Tag: TikTok
Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series
Beyond Facebook and Twitter: The Impact of New and Niche Platforms For years, Facebook and Twitter dominated scholarly research about…
Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms…
On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times
In Germany, TikTok accounts impersonated prominent political figures during the country’s last national election. In Colombia, misleading TikTok posts falsely…
The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. | The New Yorker
It was 9 P.M., and Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, was pacing back and forth in the newsroom…
Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up | WIRED
Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users, but TikTok got…
Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday (19 April) the Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz published an article that confirmed the name of…
An ‘Explosion’ of Anti-Ukraine Disinformation Is Hitting Moldova | WIRED
The video of the two men wrestling has been shared 41,000 times on Facebook, although the post was taken down…
Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok | The Washington Post
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide…