Fake news, real consequences
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-09T23:28:59+00:00CBS News June 27, 2019 As the 2016 U.S. election illustrated, social media has become a powerful tool for disinformation and propaganda. Today, the Philippines is center stage..
A Trump attack on an Amazon ‘scam’ is dividing wealthy Democrats and Republicans: CNBC survey reveals
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-09T23:26:59+00:00CNBC Matt Lavietes June 28, 2018 President Donald Trump has made Amazon and its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, a repeated target of attacks. It seems to be working, and not just with his base of working-class voters...
Popular ‘USA’ Facebook Page Run by Ukrainians Targeted Older Americans
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-09T23:17:29+00:00Snopes Alex Kasprak and Jordan Liles October 1, 2019 A once pro-Trump Facebook page, World USA, built a following of nearly 1 million users between October 2016 and late September 2019 by sharing generically patriotic, Norman Rockwellian remembrances of a bygone America...
Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-09T23:05:50+00:00The New York Times Davey Alba September 29, 2019 In April 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, told Congress about an ambitious plan to share huge amounts of posts, links and other user data with researchers around the world so that they could study and flag disinformation on the site...
Privacy concerns could derail unprecedented plan to use Facebook data to study elections
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-09T23:14:55+00:00AAAS Jeffrey Mervis September 24, 2019 Gary King benefited from perfect timing in selling Facebook on the idea of sharing a treasure trove of its data with academics. But now, the clock is working against efforts by King and others to keep the innovative project...
Bringing Science to Bear on Social Media
Zeve Sanderson2019-09-13T21:07:54+00:00Knight Foundation Blog Andrew Hamilton July 29, 2019 As we enter our nation’s next presidential election cycle, we will be compelled once again to reexamine the new, disturbing terms of engagement regarding the dissemination of information and misinformation...
Disguising Hate: How Radical Evangelicals Spread Anti-Islamic Vitriol on Facebook
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-08T00:03:02+00:00Snopes Alex Kasprak May 15, 2019 A small group of radical evangelical Christians is repurposing Facebook pages and PACs to build a coordinated, pro-Trump network that spreads hate and conspiracy theories...
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ABC Stephen Loiaconi April 23, 2019 Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, dismissed Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election as “a couple of Facebook ads” Tuesday, but experts say special counsel Robert Mueller uncovered...
The movement to skip the electoral college
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-08T00:14:56+00:00Downtown News Magazine Lisa Brody April 23, 2019 Today, we live in an era where we are bombarded by constant communication, with 24-hour cable news channels, emails flooding us with advice and information, and social media coming at us from every side, providing us with news, images and details, factual and some that are less-than, at all times of the day and night...
Turns Out Liberals and Conservatives Mainly Follow the Same News Sources
Zeve Sanderson2019-10-01T16:46:00+00:00Pacific Standard Tom Jacobs March 6, 2019 There is a justifiable fear that the splintering of news sources, first by cable television networks and then by the Internet, is leading many people to live in ideological bubbles, with little access to arguments from opposing political ideologies. While such self-siloing is clearly a problem, a new study suggests the situation isn't as dire as we might think...