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Dominion: will one Canadian company bring down Trump’s empire of disinformation? | The Guardian
When Donald Trump and his allies pushed the “big lie” of voter fraud and a stolen election, it seemed nothing…
The Storming of the Capitol and the Future of Speech Online | Stanford
Social media and digital technologies have come under fire for their contribution to the development of the groups that ultimately…
Investors Push Home Depot and Omnicom to Steer Ads From Misinformation | The New York Times
Shareholders in Home Depot and the advertising giant Omnicom have filed resolutions asking the companies to investigate whether the money…
The role of misinformation in Trump’s insurrection | Brookings
Misinformation is a big part of our current polarization because it is hard to bring the country together when each…
Report: Facebook’s misinformation checks on Georgia runoff are failing | Axios
Misinformation is proliferating on Facebook about January's Senate election in Georgia despite the company's stated plans to keep conspiracy theories…
Podcast: How democracies can go on offense against disinformation | Brookings
Rather than just playing defense, how can democracies can go on offense against disinformation? That’s a question Alina Polyakova, the…
The election is over, but voter fraud conspiracies aren’t going away | MIT Technology Review
President Trump’s conspiracy-theory-fueled plan to overturn his defeat in the 2020 elections targeted six states that President-elect Joe Biden narrowly…
“What do the data tell us about election 2020?” panel | NULab at Northeastern University
Please join us for “What do the data tell us about election 2020?” a panel that will feature: Erika Franklin…
How to deal with AI-enabled disinformation | Brookings
Rapid disinformation attacks—i.e., attacks in which disinformation is unleashed quickly and broadly with the goal of creating an immediate disruptive…