Twitter Is a Megaphone for ‘Sudden Death’ Vaccine Conspiracies
[ad_1] Graham led research in November and early December that found Covid misinformation surged on Twitter after the platform lifted its ban on misleading health information. Since January 1, new analysis…
The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress
[ad_1] The problem, says Santos, is that often platforms do not appreciate the potential impact of “anti-democratic” content. “They’ll take down content that incites violence,” she says. “But when people…
Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
[ad_1] In January 2021, after former US president Donald Trump tweeted in support of an insurrection on the Capitol, his account was frozen and he was locked out. But across…
A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
[ad_1] On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside his home. Amare, who was ethnically Tigrayan, had been…
Why Are People in the US Becoming Radicalized?
[ad_1] Extremist movements can make people feel significant, give them a sense of purpose, and provide them a narrative that explains why everything seems so screwed up. They also give…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
[ad_1] Liz Crokin, a popular QAnon influencer who boasts more than 100,000 followers on Telegram and hundreds of paid subscribers on Substack, wrote on Telegram that the emails implicate Dorsey…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Isn’t Ready for the Next Natural Disaster
[ad_1] Robert Mardini, the director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), says that the organization has its own trends analysis unit that uses software to monitor…
The Art of Hitting Disinformation Where It Lives
[ad_1] But beyond documenting and archiving and debunking disinformation, what can be done? How do we respond to this emergent property, an artistic movement born of the digital age? The…
A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly
[ad_1] In an attempt to shift that blame, Dragonbridge’s influence campaign went so far as to create spoofed posts from Intrusion Truth, a mysterious pseudonymous Twitter account that has previously…
Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Part of a Global Menace
[ad_1] For the past five weeks, thousands of Iranians, led by courageous young women, have taken to the streets of dozens of cities around the country, driven to action by…
The Hunt for Wikipedia’s Disinformation Moles
[ad_1] This network mapping may also identify a particular strategy used by bad actors of splitting their edit histories between a number of accounts to evade detection. The editors put…
The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect
[ad_1] Anyone could have seen the blow coming. What the world didn’t expect was quite how much Alex Jones would have to pay for weaponizing disinformation and piling misery onto…
Brazil’s Far Right Plots Its Own January 6 Insurrection
[ad_1] Telegram did not respond to a request fof comment. Telegram was used heavily by organizers of the January 6 riot in the US. The platform is unmoderated, with small…
This Dangerous Meme in US Politics Is Over a Century Old
[ad_1] “This incredible journey we’re on together has only just begun,” former president Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio on September 17. In response, the crowd saluted him with…
Games, Mysteries, and the Lure of QAnon
[ad_1] QAnon is so sprawling, it’s hard to know where people join. One week, it’s the false rumor that 5G cell towers spread disease, another week it’s Wayfair.com trafficking children…
Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem
[ad_1] Burmese influencer Han Nyein Oo rose to prominence in 2020, posting memes and gossip about Burmese celebrities on Facebook to an audience that grew to several hundred thousand people…
2 Refugee Crises—and Their Dark Lessons for the Coming Famine
[ad_1] The tendency of authoritarian regimes to learn from one another is of particular concern when combined with the prior threats from Libya. Libya, long a preferred jumping-off point for…