How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection
NPR: Shannon Bond & Bobby Allyn Hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, angry Donald Trump supporters on Facebook coalesced around a rallying...
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- Oct 18, 2021
Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccines and the Biden Administration
A new campaign appears to be spreading falsehoods about the potential for forced inoculations against Covid-19. New York Times: Julian E....
- Oct 13, 2021
Washington’s Most Powerful Women 2021
Our list of the region’s 150-plus most powerful women includes hometown heavyweights, national notables, and folks shaping things from...
- May 24, 2021
Long After Trump's Loss, a Push to Inspect Ballots Persists
The New York Times Georgia has already counted its 2020 presidential vote three times, with the same result: President Biden defeated...
- May 18, 2021
From sharing supervillain quotes to passing a Russian child model off as a deceased Palestinian
The Daily Beast: Noor Ibrahim The discourse around the most recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas was already toxic. Then,...
- May 17, 2021
Chinese businessman with links to Steve Bannon is driving force for disinformation network
Washington Post: Jeanne Whalen, Craig Timberg and Eva Dou May 17, 2021 A sprawling online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui...
- Apr 13, 2021
Us and Them: How Soviet-era Thinking Divided Immigrants Over Trump
Pulitzer Center: Anastasia Gliadkovskaya Belonging to groups is human. Like everyone, former Soviet Union immigrants living in the U.S....
- Mar 8, 2021
Disinformation attacks are spreading. Here are 4 keys to protecting your company
Fortune: Lisa Kaplan It will be months before we fully grasp the significance of two key events—the impact of disinformation leading to a...
- Mar 1, 2021
Twitter ups efforts to stop misinformation, labeling falsehoods related to COVID-19 vaccine
USA Today: Morgan Hines Twitter is bolstering its efforts to point out misinformation on the platform, a long-standing problem across...
- Feb 2, 2021
How to Fix Facebook Groups
The New York Times The QAnon conspiracy theory, promotions of bogus health treatments and calls for violence based on false claims of...
- Jan 25, 2021
Alternative Social Media Platforms Become Popular Among Some Trump Supporters
NPR: Shannon Bond As Facebook and Twitter crack down on extremist groups, some on the right are migrating to alternative social media...
- Jan 20, 2021
Disinformation Experts, Security Officials Urge Media Literacy
newsy: Sasha Ingber Experts say more time at home because of coronavirus restrictions has contributed to a 'dis-infoverse. "It was almost...
- Jan 19, 2021
Fearing more violence, online platforms are cracking down on livestreams from Washington
CNN Business: Faith Karimi When a mob of rioters overran barriers and broke into the Capitol on January 6, some of them boasted about...
- Jan 14, 2021
These are the platforms that have banned Trump and his allies
How 10 social media and hosting companies dealt with violations of their content policies The Washington Post: Hannah Denham Some of the...
- Jan 13, 2021
Trump's 5-year campaign of lies led to the Capitol attack. And we just let it happen.
Trump supporters online discussed civil war as inevitable and violence as a given, and bought and amplified Trump's lies that he won the...
- Jan 12, 2021
After pro-Trump riot, experts urge US to tackle domestic disinformation
Cyber Scoop: Shannon Vavra As Americans reckon with the ways that manufactured political narratives can influence public behavior...
- Jan 9, 2021
As Inauguration Nears, Concern Of More Violence Grows
NPR: Matthew S. Schwartz The violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was unprecedented in modern U.S. history — but some pro-Trump...
- Jan 9, 2021
Squelched by Twitter, Trump seeks new online megaphone
Associated Press: Frank Bajak One Twitter wag joked about lights flickering on and off at the White House being Donald Trump signaling to...
- Jan 9, 2021
Capitol siege was planned online. Trump supporters now planning the next one.
Twitter cited dangerous talk and online planning in banning Trump’s account The Washington Post: Craig Timberg The planning for...
- Jan 7, 2021
QAnon supporters believed marching on the Capitol could trigger 'The Storm'
Business Insider: Tom Porter Before she was fatally shot in the chaos that engulfed the Capitol on Wednesday, Ashli Babbitt wrote a...
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