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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…
Targeted Harassment: The Spread of #CoronaJihad | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Sanjana Rajgarhia
July 7, 2021
In the spring of 2020, a viral slogan purporting that Muslims were purposely spreading COVID-19 in India was disseminated online using recontextualized videos. India’s ruling…
Copycat Websites: The Endless Mayfly Network | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Gabrielle Lim
July 7, 2021
“Endless Mayfly” was an operation that created inauthentic websites spoofing established media outlets and online personas to spread false and…
Forgery: The Maxine Waters Letter | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg
July 7, 2021
In December 2017, congressional candidate Omar Navarro instigated a media manipulation campaign to denigrate his political opponent, Congresswoman Maxine Waters.…
They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. | MIT Technology Review
by Antonio Regalado
June 28, 2021
Alina Chan started asking questions in March 2020. She was chatting with friends on Facebook about the virus then spreading…
India’s spat with Twitter heats up again | First Draft
by First Draft staff
June 22, 2021
Twitter’s managing director in India, Manish Maheshwari, was asked last week to appear before police as part of a legal notice over…