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Violent videos and misinformation are amplified by YouTube’s algorithm, despite the company’s rules meant to limit their spread, according to a Mozilla Foundation report published July 7. The foundation — a nonprofit that […]
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YouTube has suspended Sen. Ron Johnson from uploading videos for one week after the Wisconsin Republican’s account shared a clip in which he touted the supposed benefits of hydroxychloroquine and […]
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People who use social media to obtain information are less willing to receive a coronavirus vaccine than others, according to a study. The researchers surveyed 1476 adults and five focus […]
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Renee Ekwoge can’t remember the last conversation she had with her father. They stopped talking regularly months ago, after she moved nearly 1,000 miles away for a new job last […]
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To identify popular climate change misinformation circulating online, First Draft analyzed climate change-related conversations over the past year on the fringe platforms 4chan and 8kun. We found over 2,000 posts […]
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YouTube released data on Tuesday arguing that it is getting better at spotting and removing videos that break its rules against disinformation, hate speech and other banned content. The Google-owned video […]
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In December 2020, a 4chan user joined a heated discussion around the newly rolled-out Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, warning that international health organizations “sneaked a little bit of sterilization into vaccines.” […]
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Last June, Antonio Radić, the host of a YouTube chess channel with more than a million subscribers, was live-streaming an interview with the grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura when the broadcast suddenly […]