2024-06-27
Very good day for social media moderation and for researchers caught in the crosshairs of a ludicrous accusation.
Reuters
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision
2023-10-22
Colleagues at the UW Center for an Informed Public identified the most viewed X accounts in conversations about Israel/Hamas (using the tiny window of transparency we have left on that platform), and found a new set of crisis-tweeting “elites” that reflect a Musk-disrupted information space. …
NBC News
Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10
The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …
Our rapid research lead, Mike Caulfield (@mikecaulfield.bsky.social) has been building new collection tools and methods to adapt to the lack of transparency on Twitter/X. We're also working on collecting & integrating data from new platforms to understand an increasingly fragmented info space.
NBC News
Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10
The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …
2023-07-10
How the 1st amendment is being turned on its head to silence researchers of online disinformation & restrict communication b/w tech companies & govt, & what that might mean for election 2024: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Civil rights groups and academics say the recent US ruling limiting government tech company contacts could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives
Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’LinkedIn:Patrick Warren.
2023-07-09
How the 1st amendment is being turned on its head to silence researchers of online disinformation & restrict communication b/w tech companies & govt, & what that might mean for election 2024: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Civil rights groups and academics say the ruling limiting the US government contacting tech companies could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives
Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’ LinkedIn: Patrick Warren . M...