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Twitter flagged Donald Trump’s tweets with election misinformation: They continued to spread both on and off the platform | HKS Misinformation Review
by Zeve Sanderson, Jonathan Nagler, Megan A. Brown, Joshua A. Tucker, and Richard Bonneau
August 24, 2021
We analyze the spread of Donald Trump’s tweets that were flagged by Twitter using two intervention strategies—attaching a warning label…
Afghanistan Taliban long have used Twitter, WhatsApp as propaganda, governance tools | The Washington Post
by Craig Timberg and Cristiano Lima
August 19, 2021
For a group that espouses ancient moral codes, the Afghan Taliban has used strikingly sophisticated social media tactics to build…
Twitter’s racist algorithm is also ageist, ableist and Islamaphobic, researchers find | NBC
by Kevin Collier
August 12, 2021
A Twitter image-cropping algorithm that went viral last year when users discovered it preferred white people to Black people was…
How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media | Annenberg School for Communication
August 9, 2021
Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and algorithmic radicalization. Yet a…
Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
August 4, 2021
Twitter announced today it’s partnering with news organizations The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand its efforts focused on highlighting reliable…
Extremism Online | Essay Series
July 28, 2021
Extremism Online In this essay series from Items, the SSRC’s digital forum, researchers examine how right-wing extremism ideologies multiply through…
Twitter admits it verified several fake accounts | The Verge
by Jon Porter
July 14, 2021
Twitter says it has permanently suspended a “small number” of fake accounts it mistakenly verified just weeks after re-launching its…
Misidentification: How The #Antifafires Rumor Caught On Like Wildfire | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Erin Gallagher
July 7, 2021
During the Oregon wildfires of September 2020, rumors spread locally and nationally that left wing activists were responsible. The evidence…
Misidentification: Parkland Shooter | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brian Friedberg
July 7, 2021
During the active crisis of the Parkland school shooting in February 2018, a photo misidentifying the alleged perpetrator moved from…