9 Best Articles in 2022
Data & Society
Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism
Data & Society
20+ min read · From 2018 · This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference in Austin…
WIRED
Meet the Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News and Corrupted the US Election
WIRED
~11 min read · From 2017 · These guys didn’t care if Trump won or lost. They only wanted pocket money.
BuzzFeed
Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election
BuzzFeed
9 min read · From 2016 · A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.
The Washington Post
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’
The Washington Post
7 min read · From 2016 · The man responsible for many of this year's viral political hoaxes thinks he may have swung the election.
Data & Society
Fake News Is Not the Only Problem
Data & Society
~11 min read · From 2016 · Bias, propaganda, and deliberately misleading information are much more prevalent and do more damage.
HackerNoon
The New Neural Internet is Coming
HackerNoon
4 min read · From 2018 · And it looks pretty scary from here
fb.me
Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls
fb.me
7 min read · From 2017 · Jenna Abrams and Pamela Moore wrote tweets that were widely shared by mainstream media outlets during the 2016 election. Turns out they were really Russian trolls.
Guardian Tech
Fears mount over WhatsApp's role in spreading fake news
Guardian Tech
5 min read · From 2018 · App blamed for circulating false information in India, Brazil, Kenya and now the UK
VICE
The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
VICE
~18 min read · From 2017 · Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory? Two reporters from Zurich…
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Poynter
Google is now highlighting fact checks in search
Poynter
4 min read · From 2017 · Google rolled out a new feature Friday morning that will help fact checks stand out in search results. If a search query returns a result that includes a fact check, it will be featured as a snippe…
getbadnews.com
Can you beat my score? Play the fake news game!
getbadnews.com
From 2018 · Drop all pretense of ethics and choose the path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as…
Guardian Tech
Thirty countries use 'armies of opinion shapers' to manipulate democracy
Guardian Tech
4 min read · From 2017 · Governments in Venezuela, the Philippines, Turkey and elsewhere use social media to influence elections, drive agendas and counter critics, says report
Guardian Tech
Climate misinformation on Facebook ‘increasing substantially’, study says
Guardian Tech
3 min read · 2021-11-04 · A new analysis reveals that an estimated 818,000 climate misinformation posts received 1.36m views everyday
Nautilus Magazine
Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality
Nautilus Magazine
~16 min read · From 2017 · Released in July 2016, Pokémon Go is a location-based, augmented-reality game for mobile devices, typically played on mobile phones;…
TechCrunch
Facebook buys ads in Indian newspapers to warn about WhatsApp fakes
TechCrunch
5 min read · From 2018 · As Twitter finally gets serious about purging fake accounts, and YouTube says it will try to firefight conspiracy theories and fake news flaming across its platform with $25M to fund bona fide journalism, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is grappling with its own fake demons in India, where social media pla…
TNW
How to avoid getting fooled by fake news on Facebook
TNW
8 min read · From 2016 · As rumblings of a fake news problem turned into chatter, and then a crescendo, Mark Zuckerberg backed away slowly, insisting the company he founded, Facebook, didn’t have a problem. Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes. The hoaxes […]
Facebook Newsroom
News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
Facebook Newsroom
2 min read · From 2016 · We're committed to doing our part to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes on Facebook.
Slate
Facebook’s Crackdown on “Fake News” Might Actually Be Working
Slate
7 min read · From 2018 · A new study finds that suspected hoax and propaganda sites are getting less engagement on Facebook since the 2016 election—and getting more on Twitter.
