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A Senate report finds that Russia's Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter.
A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on whether advertisers influenced fact-checking, saying in an email, “The primary way we surface potentially false news to third-party fact-checkers is via machine learning.”
A Q&A with SRCCON:POWER speaker Britt Paris.
There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure…
Just six percent of bots on Twitter accounted for 31 percent of bad information.
Existing approaches to cybersecurity emphasize either international state-to-state logics (such as deterrence theory) or the integrity of individual information
Mediated vs. unmediated experience as a driver of fake-news and related phenomena
The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity
CRAAP doesn't. effing. work.
Adventures in fact-checking for students
Alison Head, a co-author of a new report on the media habits of almost 6,000 college students, explains why news consumption has become an arduous task for younger generations.
With fake pages and sham accounts, the military targeted the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, said former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.
I’m writing a couple framing documents for some events coming up. This is one that I’m still drafting, but I thought I’d throw the draft up and take any comments. Note that this i…
Tribalism = social proof.
For the longest time, we thought that as speech became more democratized, democracy itself would flourish. But in 2018, it is increasingly clear that more speech can in fact threaten democracy.
Researchers are finding more and more that online misinformation fuels the spread of diseases such as tooth decay, Ebola, and measles.
Today is the day—finally—to stop being surprised that human beings espouse beliefs contrary to fact.
The QAnon narrative shows the need for better practices in reporting on baseless claims and hoaxes. Here’s how the media can take action