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Public libraries face difficult questions regarding what vaccine materials to make available. How to decide?
When faced with a book-length onslaught of brain-breaking conspiracies like “Revolution Q,” and the Qanon movement behind it, we might start asking if we're getting things exactly backwards.
An increasingly popular tactic challenges conventional wisdom on the spread of electoral disinformation: the creation of partisan outlets masquerading as local news organizations. An investigation by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has discovered at least 450 websites in a network of local and business news organizations, each distributing thousands of […]
Researcher Whitney Phillips on the web’s "information pollution."
This conversation shouldn’t frame privacy laws as an impediment.
Study participants wore a wireless EEG headset and were asked to read political news headlines in a Facebook feed and determine their credibility.
In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.
Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.
“Real life stopped mattering to me,” says founder Fredrick Brennan.
Source Hacking details the techniques used by media manipulators to target journalists and other influential public figures to pick up falsehoods and unknowingly amplify them to the public.
Google-savvy reputation consultants will cover up arrests, poor customer reviews, and other image-killing content for the right price.
We don’t have to be “unwitting collaborators” in the disinformation war.
As with so many technologies, the Internet’s racism was programmed right in—and it’s quickly fueled the spread of White supremacist, xenophobic rhetoric through...
Nature - Misconceptions about disinformation leave us vulnerable to manipulation online, says Kate Starbird.
Recent conversation has blurred two very different social epistemic phenomena: echo chambers and epistemic bubbles. Members of epistemic bubbles merely lack exposure to relevant information and arguments. Members of echo chambers, ...
“What do you do when your parents go from posting Minions to posting hard-right memes about cement milkshakes?”