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Investigating Facebook: A Fractious Relationship with Academia | Financial Times
by Madhumita Murgia, Cristina Criddle, and Hannah Murphy
December 6, 2021
Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics…
Why Political Disinformation in Honduras Is Spreading | Time
by Vera Bergengruen
November 17, 2021
At 10:16pm on October 7, a cluster of nineteen Twitter accounts shared identical opinions about the upcoming presidential election in…
Global News & Technology Leadership in Challenging Times | Shorenstein Center
November 8, 2021
The challenges facing global news-industry leaders have seldom been as great as today. Economic disruption, technology transformation and a frontal…
Thousands of posts around January 6 riots go missing from Facebook transparency tool | POLITICO
by Mark Scott
September 2, 2021
Scores of Facebook posts from the days before and after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in Washington are missing.…
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information | The Economist
by The Economist Staff
August 10, 2021
IN 1960 JOHN KENNEDY, the Democratic candidate for the American presidency, accused the incumbent Republican administration of having allowed a…
Twitter Said It Restricted Palestinian Writer’s Account by Accident | Vice
by Emanuel Maiberg and Joseph Cox
May 13, 2021
On Tuesday Twitter temporarily restricted the account of Palestinian-American writer Mariam Barghouti, who was on the ground in the West…
With threats and trolls, organizing online Covid-19 relief in India gets complicated | Rest of World
by Nilesh Christopher
May 4, 2021
Last week, digital activist Saket Gokhale started to get frantic calls from volunteers working to organize online Covid-19 relief. As…
Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates, advocates say | PBS NewsHour
by Dave Collins
April 9, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shortly before COVID-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held…
Opinion: Misinformation Isn’t Just on Facebook and Twitter | The New York Times
by Nicholas A. Ashford
March 29, 2021
The plague of misinformation — false rumors about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, the ineffectiveness of face masks…