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...
While social media platforms did not create QAnon, they helped it go mainstream via recommendation systems designed to prioritize engagement
or, more accurately, their inaction — to where we are today.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew : Really glad that @cwarzel is situating this in Facebook's 2017 decision to...
Another video making Nancy Pelosi seem drunk goes viral; YouTube, Twitter removed versions of it, while Facebook, where it has 3M+ views, adds fact-check label
once again targeting @SpeakerPelosi. If Facebook can't defend against low-tech disinfo like this video, it's clear they're not ready for the threats that are coming our way in November. They need to d...
Facebook says it banned anti-vaccination news site Natural News for using content farms from Macedonia and the Philippines, not for the content it posted
NBC News : Tweets: @fadiquran , @dave_schilling , @astoraaron , @goldengateblond , @noupside , @arawnsley , @edbott , and @oneunderscore__ . Thanks: @thekenyeung Tweets: Fadi Quran / @fadiquran : Ava...