Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”
like a number of smart people!—aren't surprised at the violence. 2/ https://www.wired.com/... Carl Miller / @carljackmiller : Here goes Reddit too. You really can't overstate how important r/TheDonald...
Investigation sheds light on a huge ISIS cache of 90K+ online documents that are still being used to actively disseminate propaganda on social media and the web
Carl Miller / WIRED UK :
Investigation by BBC and ISD think tank into the COVID-19 “infodemic” on Facebook finds right-wing misinformation had far more interactions than the WHO and CDC
“What if [they] are trying to kill off as many people as possible” reads one Facebook post. Tweets: @carljackmiller , @bbcclick , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller , @carljackmiller ...
Social Science One and Facebook say they are now making a dataset with ~38M URLs available to academic researchers, two years after announcing the initiative
and acted with such hesitation — before releasing a massive batch of data. Beats the alternative. https://twitter.com/... Gary King / @kinggary : Today, we released a privacy-protective Facebook datas...
Profile of vTaiwan, a platform created after the 2014 Taiwan protests to deliberate politically contentious issues and break legislative deadlock
Carl Miller / BBC : Tweets: @dorotheabaur , @eszbako , @gquaggiotto , @anneapplebaum , and @anneapplebaum Tweets: Dorothea Baur / @dorotheabaur : Fascinating approach to moderating political division...
Facebook says it will more prominently label content that fact-checkers deem false on Facebook and Instagram, will ban ads suggesting voting is pointless
three from Iran, one from Russia. more than 50 takedowns in 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/... Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy : Really don't think a press release authored by a lifetime Republican operat...
Profile of British Army's 77th Brigade, staffed with experts in graphic design, social media, and data analytics to conduct online influence operations
Carl Miller / WIRED UK : Tweets: @carljackmiller Tweets: Carl Miller / @carljackmiller : I've written a long read for @WiredUK on my visit to the 77th Brigade, the British Army's information warfare ...