9 Best Articles in 2021
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Scientific American
How Misinformation Spreads—and Why We Trust It
Scientific American
~11 min read · From 2019 · The most effective misinformation starts with seeds of truth
Scientific American
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder
Scientific American
10 min read · From 2019 · Our willingness to share content without thinking is exploited to spread disinformation
medium.com
Designing Against Misinformation
medium.com
5 min read · From 2017 · The research and design thinking behind the latest treatments for Misinformation on Facebook
The Atlantic
It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda.
The Atlantic
~11 min read · Oct 9th · You don’t need fake accounts to spread propaganda online. Real people will happily do it.
Vox
“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
Vox
10 min read · 2020-01-16 · The impeachment trial probably won’t change any minds. Here’s why.
The New York Times
‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
The New York Times
6 min read · May 7th · Social and psychological forces are combining to make the sharing and believing of misinformation an endemic problem with no easy solution.
Lawrence Yeo
Knowledge Is Not a Thing
Lawrence Yeo
~16 min read · From 2018 · What is knowledge? In the age of misinformation, exploring this question is more important than ever.
WIRED
The Professors Who Call ‘Bullshit’ on Covid-19 Misinformation
WIRED
3 min read · 2020-03-24 · Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom are policing Twitter feeds, Medium posts, and other sources of bad data and misleading charts.
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The Atlantic
It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda.
The Atlantic
~11 min read · Oct 9th · You don’t need fake accounts to spread propaganda online. Real people will happily do it.
blog.youtube
Perspective: Tackling Misinformation on YouTube
blog.youtube
4 min read · Aug 25th · It's not just what we take down, but how we treat all the content we leave up that gives us the best path forward.
The Atlantic
Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse
The Atlantic
~13 min read · Sep 27th · A conversation with the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The Washington Post
Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says
The Washington Post
Sep 3rd · News publishers on Facebook that trafficked in misinformation in the months preceding and immediately following the 2020 election got six times the number of likes and shares as pages that publish factual news, according to a forthcoming peer-reviewed study by New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes.
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Science Magazine
The misinformation machine
Science Magazine
From 2019 · In recent years, there has been an explosion of research trying to understand misinformation: what it is, how it operates, and what impacts it has on the world. On the surface, this roiling field…
zeynep tufekci
The Gaslighting of Science
zeynep tufekci
8 min read · Apr 11th · Final Installment of the Misinformation Trifecta
blog.youtube
Perspective: Tackling Misinformation on YouTube
blog.youtube
4 min read · Aug 25th · It's not just what we take down, but how we treat all the content we leave up that gives us the best path forward.
The New York Times
How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation
The New York Times
8 min read · From 2017 · Twitter is far smaller than Facebook, but it may play a more consequential role in the spread of misinformation.
thegradient.pub
An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
thegradient.pub
~11 min read · 2019-11-30 · Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided.—…
Twitter
Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, & Misinformation
Twitter
10 min read · From 2017
Gizmodo
Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages on Facebook
Gizmodo
3 min read · 2020-11-10 · Steve Bannon has been outed for his involvement in running a network of misinformation pages on Facebook. Who could have possibly seen this coming.
Psychology Today
How Feelings Can Deliver Misinformation
Psychology Today
3 min read · Mar 12th · Emotions such as love and anxiety can lead you astray.
NBC News
Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
NBC News
6 min read · 2020-08-07 · According to internal discussions, Facebook removed "strikes" so that conservative pages were not penalized for violations of misinformation policies.
