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Just before midnight, on Sunday, June 9, last year, Zhang Jialong tweeted a picture of his one-day-old daughter lying in a hospital cot, wrapped in layers of pink. āEvery life […]
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The major online platforms’ long struggleĀ to cope with floods of misinformation has reached a new pitch of urgency during the coronavirus pandemic ā just as the fight has become harder […]
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Twitter is failing to rein in āsuperspreadersā of coronavirus misinformation on its platform, according to research detailing dozens of posts shared by high-profile accounts apparently flouting the social media groupās […]
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Nearly half the āpeopleā talking about the coronavirus pandemic on Twitter are not actually people, but bots, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University. And many of those bots […]
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Since December 2019, COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly across the world. Not surprisingly, conversation about COVID-19 is also increasing. This article is a first look at the amount of conversation […]
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We analyzed the Russian Internet Research Agencyās (IRA) 2015-2017 English-language information operation on Twitter to understand the special role that engagement with outsiders (i.e., non-IRA affiliated accounts) played in their […]
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On March 11, 2020 Twitter shared with the Stanford Internet Observatory accounts and tweets associated with five distinct takedowns. These include: Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt: 5,350 accounts and 36,523,977 […]
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Top social media companies are adopting stricter rules to limit scams and thwart misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic. But posts continue to surface that violate them ā underscoring how the […]
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham has deleted a tweet touting an unproven coronavirus treatment that a Twitter spokesperson said today ran afoul of its rules against misleading health information. Ingraham […]
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SAN FRANCISCO ā The day after the New Hampshire primary last month, Facebookās security team removed a network of fake accounts that originated in Iran, which had posted divisive partisan […]