#MisInformation

New by me, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: a post-election look inside Facebook, where internal battles are raging about how to balance the sometimes-incompatible goals of growth and goodness.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-

Significant paper on the cost of misinformation. Basically, one standard deviation more viewership of Sean Hannity (denied seriousness of COVID) versus Tucker Carlson (took the pandemic seriously) is associated with

Misinformation is a weed that we can never eliminate. We can spray them w chemicals, place a plastic wrap over the dirt & under the mulch to keep them from

This is a big get from @alexeheath. More than 110,000 government government officials and candidates were on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being factchecked — and subsequently have

MikocheniReport

How to reduce the flow of fake news forwards from That Person in your life: A Thread. Like you, there are a few people in my life who forward me

We all know social media has become a powerful tool for the dissemination of disinformation, propaganda, and #conspiracytheories. But we can do something about it!1/4 One of the most challenging

Rami Ismail (رامي)

Twitter reminder: when engaging with assholes, they are trying to broadcast their hate & misinformation via your reach, mentions, viral threads. Muting is giving them free & unmonitored access to

That time the USA slapped a visa ban on us (Nigeria), what was the reason again? Identity management??Seeing the problem? "According to the Trump administration, Nigeria was banned because the

elizabeth bruenig

among the many problems with (may god forgive me) the steak umms twitter account's narrative about propaganda and misinformation being most appealing to the disenfranchised is that it just doesn't

1. A viral article w/climate misinformation, published on The Daily Wire, was rated "partly false" by a Facebook fact-checking partnersThe fact-check was written by 7 PhD scientists Then The Daily

I wrote a book about conspiracy theories and I'm quite familiar with the damage that misinformation can do. Laws like this are counterproductive, as they only fuel distrust. And inevitably,

As much as I hated Obama when I was a Republican, I never once felt I had to report a tweet of his as I am reporting Trump's tweets on

ReaganRepublican

For those wondering why @twitter finally took a stand on Trump's lies about elections instead of his conspiracy theories about @JoeNBC.A short reminder1) in 2016, Russia used our social media

Reports that the government is considering restricting free speech are very disturbing. The government should not take advantage of a health crisis to infringe our hard-fought freedoms. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-misinformation-disinforma

Mark Di Stefano

NEW: In response to claims in that Twitter thread with 25k+ RTs that the UK Department of Health has been running a network of fake NHS accounts, a Twitter spokesperson

This is pure manipulation. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/203318/covid-19-news-consumption-week-twenty-five-misinformation-deep-dive.pdfOFCOM has prevented main media from reporting other than the Govt line on covid19