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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…
Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived | The Verge
It had been a long pandemic for Twitter’s research team. Tasked with solving some of the platform’s toughest problems around…
Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post
As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding…
Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions? | BBC Sounds
What happened when a bizarre US-based conspiracy theory surfaced a continent away in Africa? In the second part of Trending’s…
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers urge Facebook, Twitter to better fight Russian disinformation | Reuters
A bipartisan group of three U.S. senators urged Meta's Facebook, Twitter and Telegram to do a better job of stopping…
Twitter announces crisis misinformation policy in Ukraine | Protocol
Twitter will begin taking action against misinformation in crisis situations, the company said Thursday. The new policy will be immediately…
Musk’s Twitter bid, and the ‘bot’ complication | Columbia Journalism Review
Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter for $44 billion is only a month old, but it has already had more…