Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”
www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives. And also, becaus...
Academics and US agencies are overhauling or ending online misinformation research due to Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans' escalating campaign
An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation … Mastodon: @PaulaChertok@mas.to , @dangillmor@mastodon...
Twitter plans to discontinue free access to its API starting on February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and launch a “paid basic tier” instead
This week I spent too many minutes watching Nothing, Forever, which is a Twitch stream that runs 24/7. Mastodon: Kate Starbird / @katestarbird@mstdn.social : Looks like Twitter is eliminating free acc...
In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more
or Congress can force it to be ABC News : Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back after hours-long shutdown Shannon Bond / NPR : Watch Live: Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an...
Trump shutting down his blog shows the significance of social media platforms' amplification mechanics and how they give free and huge reach to the worst actors
it's free reach. It's never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : @Bren...
This year, disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with “Plandemic” as a case study of social networks' failures
Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the year of the infodemic. Month after month, self-serving social media companies … Tweets: @janelytv , @newslitproject , @rasmus_kleis , @brucewilso...
Sources: teens are being paid by conservative youth org Turning Point Action to promote pro-Trump posts on Twitter and Facebook; Twitter suspended ~20 accounts
One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It's hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don't trust Dr. Fauci.” Tweets: @isaacstanbecker , @kevinroose , @hsha...
Sources: Facebook is preparing to limit the reach of QAnon content, with an announcement next month, and has been coordinating with Twitter and other companies
something we've seen more of in recent weeks. Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Facebook also planning on taking acton against QAnon, sources tell me. One source said company's challenge is determining what...