Following the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill, US President Donald Trump was blocked or banned by a number of…
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Misinformation went down after Twitter banned Trump | The Washington Post
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Twitter is working to expand the use of its “misinformation” labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature,…