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Deepfake “Amazon workers” are sowing confusion on Twitter | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
March 31, 2021
The news: Ahead of a landmark vote that could lead to the formation of the first-ever labor union at a US-based…
When journalists put tweets in news stories, do they transfer too much power to Twitter? | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Logan Molyneux and Shannon McGregor
March 26, 2021
The new year brought new dimensions to the ongoing conversation on the power platforms have in hosting and shaping public…
Twitter is caught between politics and free speech. I was collateral damage. | Columbia Journalism Review
by Salil Tripathi
March 17, 2021
The Babri Masjid—a mosque in Ayodhya, a city in northern India—was a source of tension between Hindus and Muslims for…
Texas Wants to Ban Facebook and Twitter … From Banning | Vice
by Paul Blest
March 9, 2021
The state that wants to deregulate everything wants to tell Facebook and Twitter how to run their platforms. Gov. Greg…
Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter | New Media & Society Journal
by Emily Vraga, Melissa Tully, and Leticia Bode
March 9, 2021
Extending previous research, we test two solutions for addressing misinformation by pairing news literacy (NL) messages with corrective responses to…
Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems | Poynter
by Alex Mahadevan
February 18, 2021
On Feb. 5, Twitter flagged a post from controversial YouTuber Tim Pool that said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was…
Facebook, Twitter Struggling in Fight against Balkan Content Violations | Balkan Insight
by Ivana Jeremic and Milica Stojanovic
February 16, 2021
Partners Serbia, a Belgrade-based NGO that works on initiatives to combat corruption and develop democracy and the rule of the…
Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment | PNAS
by Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel, Dean Eckles, and David G. Rand
February 10, 2021
Americans are much more likely to be socially connected to copartisans, both in daily life and on social media. However,…
What is Birdwatch? | First Draft
by Madelyn Webb and Bethan John
February 4, 2021
Birdwatch is a new program launched by Twitter to combat misinformation on the platform, using volunteers to help determine the…