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Misinformation went down after Twitter banned Trump | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin & Craig Timberg
20 hours ago
Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last…
How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation | Harvard Business Review
by Joan Donovan
6 days ago
Over the last four years, disinformation has become a global watchword. After Russian meddling on social networks during the 2016…
Platform Ban Round-up: Critics say Too Little, Too Late
by MediaWell Staff
January 7, 2021
Finally spurred to action by scenes of a disinformation-fueled mob of insurrectionists storming the Capitol, the major US social media…
How doctors learned to battle on Trump’s favorite turf | POLITICO
by Joanne Kenen
January 7, 2021
WHITE COATS TAKE ON THE WHITE HOUSE ONLINE: Doctors, nurses and other health care workers were active on Twitter and…
Violence on Capitol Hill Is a Day of Reckoning for Social Media | The New York Times
by Kate Conger, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel
January 6, 2021
Update: Twitter has insisted that President Trump delete three tweets, and said it would lock his account for 12 hours,…
Researchers developed an AI system that predicts the likelihood people will spread misinformation based on words they use | Poynter
by Laura Weffer
December 29, 2020
University of Sheffield researchers Yida Mu and Dr. Nikos Aletra report they’ve developed an artificial intelligence system to help identify…
Twitter says it will start removing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation | The Verge
by Makena Kelly
December 17, 2020
Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations. Any tweets claiming that…
Twitter put warning labels on hundreds of thousands of tweets. Our research examined which worked best. | The Washington Post
by Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau and Joshua Tucker
December 11, 2020
Recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on misinformation and the 2020 election.…
Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
November 11, 2020
Twitter is working to expand the use of its “misinformation” labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature,…