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Rumble Sends Viewers Tumbling Toward Misinformation | WIRED
by Ellie House, Alice Wright, and Isabelle Stanley
May 12, 2021
“I'm not really expecting things to ever be what they were,” says Sarah. “There's no going back.” Sarah’s mother is…
Father And Daughter, Divided By Disinformation On YouTube | NPR
by Bo Hamby, Rachel Martin, Steve Mullis
April 26, 2021
Renee Ekwoge can't remember the last conversation she had with her father. They stopped talking regularly months ago, after she…
How 4chan and 8kun users rely on YouTube videos to spread climate change denialism | First Draft
by Carlotta Dotto
April 7, 2021
To identify popular climate change misinformation circulating online, First Draft analyzed climate change-related conversations over the past year on the…
YouTube argues it’s getting better at removing hate speech | The Washington Post
by Gerritt de Vynck
April 7, 2021
YouTube released data on Tuesday arguing that it is getting better at spotting and removing videos that break its rules against…
Vaccine infertility claims on YouTube sweep across fringe platforms | First Draft
by Carlotta Dotto
March 24, 2021
In December 2020, a 4chan user joined a heated discussion around the newly rolled-out Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, warning that international…
Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech | WIRED
by Will Knight
March 2, 2021
Last June, Antonio Radić, the host of a YouTube chess channel with more than a million subscribers, was live-streaming an…
“Down the Rabbit Hole” of Vaccine Misinformation on YouTube: Network Exposure Study | Journal of Medical Internet Research
by Lu Tang, Kayo Fujimoto, Muhammad Amith, Rachel Cunningham, Rebecca A Constantini, Felicia York, Grace Xiong, Julie A Boom, and Cui Tao
January 14, 2021
The proliferation of social media has allowed the antivaccine movement to become more influential than at any point in history.…
Violence on Capitol Hill Is a Day of Reckoning for Social Media | The New York Times
by Kate Conger, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel
January 6, 2021
Update: Twitter has insisted that President Trump delete three tweets, and said it would lock his account for 12 hours,…
Facebook and YouTube are losing the Covid-19 vaccine misinformation fight | Vox
by Rebecca Heilweil
December 21, 2020
Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about…