Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation social media Article 5033 words 4 votes
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media social media facebook Article 3237 words 13 votes
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. facebook social media Article 2322 words, published Nov 24 2020 18 votes
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform facebook social media Tweet 30 votes
Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it facebook social media Article 7356 words 14 votes
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks facebook social media Article 504 words 7 votes
The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level Article 9 votes
Confessions of a Trump troll - A Georgia lawyer describes how he used twenty fake Twitter accounts to disseminate political disinformation social media Article 815 words 12 votes
What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out social media Article 3677 words 16 votes
An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online social media internet Article 2902 words 6 votes
Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election facebook social media Article 2696 words 10 votes
Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots social media Article 793 words 12 votes
How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it) internet social media Video 26:08 9 votes
An interview with the Ukrainians who created the "I Love America" Facebook page facebook social media Article 1334 words 10 votes
French white supremacist network Suavelos is attracting traffic to their site by using deceptive Facebook pages that appear to support popular causes social media facebook Link 8 votes
The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed privacy social media internet Article 887 words 11 votes
The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function social media internet Article 1207 words 17 votes
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw built a fake political site and then hired a Russian troll campaign to attack it google social media Article 1758 words 12 votes
A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory and found that hundreds of Russians were working as paid trolls in rotating shifts social media internet Article 1191 words 20 votes
If Facebook wants to stop the spread of anti-vaxxers, it could start by not taking their ad dollars facebook social media Article 2014 words 12 votes
By ending default communities, Reddit increased disinformation social media Article 410 words 25 votes
A genocide incited on Facebook, with posts from Myanmar’s military facebook social media Article 1706 words 8 votes
Memes that kill: The future of information warfare social media internet security.cyber Article 4953 words, published May 3 2018 7 votes