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New case studies from @ShorensteinCtr’s Technology and Social Change Project examine the tactics used by Bannon to plant medical and election misinformation. The first is about cloaked science, which was
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What should we do about medical misinformation?It goes without saying that everyone who calls themselves an expert on “misinformation” is NOT a topical expert in scientific communication, nor does applying
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There is an ethnographic component to @katestarbird's insights about why GWP was a successful disinformation machine. GWP was quick to provide key frames for interpreting "evidence," but could also reframe
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While this piece is deeply troubling for different reasons, one thing stands out: it is not polite to take credit for an entire field of research mostly developed by women
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It’s not a typical press embargo. This is a PR campaign and they want ivy law schools to cover their board as if it is legitimate legal policy. The more
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What fresh hell... after Occupy, several disillusioned activists got into penny stocks and realized that by coordinating in a a Facebook group they could make a decent amount of money
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Just gonna leave this here. When we released the Alternative Influence Network report (@beccalew is the author), many were criticial of the humble recommendation that social media companies should review
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There is so much I want to say here about building technical and moral order together. Attempting to create a new standard that reflects his own vision of healthy communication
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This is one of the most dangerous uses of social media by a researcher. (Well, there was that other guy that posted extremist content to his own feed to test
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Taking a deeper dive into Rep Hawley and his vision of technology policy. No surprises, he conflates time spent on a device with pathology and addition. He seems to be
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I wrote this awhile ago, but it helps make sense of why content moderation is largely focused on mainstream platforms. There are other opportunities for moderation across the tech stack,
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We should all be watching DC on Jan 6, not just because of the political theatre in Congress, but because it feels a lot like the days before the Unite
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