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Why COVID-19 misinformation spread faster than pandemic in early March | Phys.org
by Stefan Stevenson
5 days ago
In early March, when the true scope of the coronavirus pandemic was still widely unknown to the public, misinformation was…
Twitter Expands QAnon Restrictions To Include Candidates, Elected Officials | Forbes
by Jack Brewster
September 18, 2020
Twitter said Thursday it will extend its restrictions on QAnon-linked accounts and content to political candidates and elected officials who…
Platforms Try to Fight Misinformation As | Campaigns & Elections
by Sean J. Miller
September 15, 2020
Twitter and Google’s moves to limit election-related disinformation on their platforms haven’t been met with positive reviews from most industry…
Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement | Network Contagion Research Institute
by Joel Finkelstein, Pamela Paresky, John K. Donohue, John Farmer, Alex Goldenberg, Sean Stevens, and Lee Jussim
September 14, 2020
Extremists use opaque memes and coded language at a massive scale. They often communicate simultaneously across several web platforms as…
US Wildfire Misinformation Mirrors What Happened in Australia | Gizmodo
by Ketan Joshi
September 14, 2020
Climate-intensified wildfires that changed the lived reality of a large majority of Australians in horrific and unforgettable ways triggered an…
New Twitter Rules Aim To Prevent Confusion Around The 2020 Election | NPR
by Shannon Bond
September 10, 2020
Twitter is putting new restrictions on election-related content, including labeling or removing posts that claim victory before results are official…
Misinformation more likely to use non-specific authority references: Twitter analysis of two COVID-19 myths | HKS Misinformation Review
by Joseph McGlynn, Maxim Baryshevtsev & Zane A. Dayton
September 9, 2020
This research examines the content, timing, and spread of COVID-19 misinformation and subsequent debunking efforts for two COVID-19 myths. COVID-19…
How hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweet | Brookings
by Jacob Gursky & Samuel Woolley
September 4, 2020
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a violent incident on a New York City subway platform.…
WHO Director-General Attacked on Twitter with CCP-Related Memes | Bellingcat
by Edward Tian
September 2, 2020
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), tweets daily out of WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.…