Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors dismissed her after Harvard got Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $500M gift
In a whistleblower complaint, she breaks her silence over events that unsettled other misinformation researchers
Some Instagram meme pages are turning into “war pages” that repost unverified footage without context, often claiming to be run by journalists in Ukraine
Just hours after the first explosions rocked Ukraine Wednesday night, massive Instagram meme pages began promoting … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @marklittlenews , @tylerkingkade , @bostonj...
Trump Media & Technology Group debuts Truth Social on the US App Store, where the free app hit No. 1; some users got errors or were waitlisted when signing up
Market summary: 📊 — India opened the week lower, as investors struggle to read Putin's mood. James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social debuts today in rocky start W...
Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like “digital redlining” to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups
Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day. Tweets: @willoremus , @ruchowdh , @ethicsoftech , @bostonjoan , @clancynewyork ,...
A look at the focus on disinformation by media, tech, and academic leaders, and how assumptions about disinfo effectiveness echo old media and advertising myths
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours … Tweets: @karlbode , @karlbode , @daveyalba , @daphnehk , @noupside , @b...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @jcstearns , @justinh...
Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied
- Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now' Tweets: @mattyglesias , @williamturton , @williamturton , @ericgeller , @jilli...
Telegram, which helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus, faces scrutiny as far-right extremists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter
and strangely ignores the other less savory parts involving terrorist recruitment, illicit financing, narcotics sales, rampant fraud activity, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tim Marchman / @timmarch...
As platforms race to purge harmful content after the Capitol riots, police race to gather evidence, showing the need for international data preservation laws
How we conceptualize the role social media played in the Capitol siege will set the stage for information governance across the globe. Tweets: @bostonjoan , @marklittlenews , @foreignpolicy , and @ken...
The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation
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