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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…
Fake news in Asian American communities can affect elections. Organizers are worried. | Vox
by Terry Nguyen
November 30, 2020
Less than a week after Election Day, a spreadsheet titled “Battling Asian American Misinformation” began circulating in progressive Asian American…
Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets | International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
by Nazim Choudhury, Kin Wai Ng, and Adriana Iamnitchi
October 16, 2020
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are critical concerns for researchers in social…
Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Organizations and Independent Producers Thrive Side by Side | Pew Research Center
by Galen Stocking, Patrick van Kessel, Michael Barthel, Katerina Eva Matsa & Maya Khuzam
September 30, 2020
What kind of news are Americans getting on YouTube, and who are they getting it from? A new Pew Research…
YouTube fights mail-in voting misinformation ahead of Election Day | The Verge
by Russell Brandom
September 24, 2020
YouTube is stepping up its measures against misinformation around the upcoming US election. In a blog post today, the platform…
Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study | Oxford Internet Institute
by Aleksi Knuutila, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Hubert Au, Jonathan Bright, Rasmus Nielsen & Philip N. Howard
September 23, 2020
In a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford analysis shows that Covid related misinformation videos primarily…
YouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories | WIRED
by Clive Thompson
September 22, 2020
In January 2019, YouTube began rolling out the system. That's when Mark Sargent noticed his flat-earth views take a nose…
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics
by NYU
September 3, 2020
The NYU Center for Social Media and Politics studies the influence of social media on politics, and develops new and…