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Brain power
Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation
Misinformation’s real-world impact includes poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm.
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Brain power
How good are communities at moderating misinformation?
A study of Reddit reveals both the potential and limitations of community-based moderation.
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Quality of science & its communication
Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself
Big tech doesn’t just fund research into itself – it also controls researchers’ access to data. Even big tobacco didn’t…
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Brain power
Online communities undermine best scientific advice
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, parenting communities were already pedaling unofficial, and often bad, information among their members.
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Brain power
Are you an unwitting mercenary in the dirty Facebook disinformation wars?
There's clear evidence of global disinformation warfare, and the uncomfortable truth is that those who share this disinformation are holding…
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2019’s top 100 journal articles
How much fake news is really shared on Facebook, and who shares it? [Top 100 journal articles of 2019]
The findings of a study of fake news sharing on Facebook have implications for knowledge sharing in organisations, and for…
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News & community
Twitter initiates a second reform in response to the growing criticism of social media
CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that Twitter is funding the development of an open and decentralized standard for social media,…
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News & community
Facebook commits to ad transparency ahead of US House Intelligence Committee Russia hearing
The Committee has been investigating Russia’s involvement in the 2016 US election, including the role that social media companies played.
