Media & Social Media

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Social Media

1. Davey Alba.  “Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media.” New York Times. 1 June 2020

2. Sheera Frenkel, Ben Decker and Davey Alba.  “How The ‘Plandemic’ Movie And Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online.”  New York Times.  21 May 2020

3. Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen.  “Fact Checking Judy Mikovits, the Controversial Virologist Attacking Anthony Fauci in a Viral Conspiracy Video.”  8 May 2020

4. Jonathan Jarry.  “The Doctor Carl Sagan Warned Us About.”  McGill.  8 Jan 2021
5. Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg.  “Misinformation Dropped Dramatically the Week After Twitter Banned Trump and Some Allies.”  Washington Post. 16 Jan 2021

6. “Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign.”  Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.  1 Oct 2020
7. “Repeat Offenders: Voting Misinformation on Twitter in the 2020 United States Election.”  Election Integrity Partnership.  29 Oct 2020

8. Sarah Evanega, Mark Lynas, Jordan Adams, and Karinne Smolenyak. “Coronavirus Misinformation: Quantifying Sources and Themes in the COVID-19‘Infodemic.’”  Cornell University. 

9. Sheera Frenkel.  “How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories.”  New York Times.  23 Nov 2020

10. Alex Thompson.  “Why the Right Wing Has a Massive Advantage on Facebook.”  Politico.  26 Sept 2020

11. Steven L. Johnson, Brent Kitchens and Peter Gray.  “Facebook Serves as an Echo Chamber, Especially for Conservatives.”  New York Times.  26 Oct 2020

12. United States.  "Cyberspace Solarium Commission."  March 2020

13. Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman.  "Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive."  Wall Street Journal.  26 Mar 2020

14. Greg Bensinger.  “Does Zuckerberg Understand How the Right to Free Speech Works?” New York Times.  8 July 2020

15. “Who Controls the Conversation.”  Economist.  24 Oct 2020

16. “The Great Clean-Up.”  Economist.  24 Oct 24

17. Kate Kelly, Emily Flitter and Shane Goldmacher.  “Companies Pull Back Political Giving Following Capitol Violence.”  New York Times.  11 Jan 2021

18. United States.  Federal Trade Commission.  Lesley Fair.  "FTC’s $5 billion Facebook Settlement: Record-Breaking and History-Making." 24 July 2019

19. Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, Evan T. Collins, and David G. Rand.  “The Implied Truth Effect:  Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings.”  2020 

20. Katherine Clayton, Spencer Blair, Jonathan A. Busam, Samuel Forstner, John Glance, Guy Green, Anna Kawata, Akhila Kovvuri Jonathan, Martin Evan Morgan, Morgan Sandhu, Rachel Sang, Rachel Scholz-Bright, Austin T. Welch, Andrew G. Wolff, Amanda Zhou, and Brendan Nyhan.  “Real Solutions for Fake News?: Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media.”

21. “Ants in a Web.”  Graphika.  May 2021

 

Media

 

1. Rebecca Tan, Peter Jamison, Carol D. Leonnig, Meagan Flynn, and John Woodrow Cox.  “Trump Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol, With One Woman Killed And Tear Gas Fired.”  Washington Post.  6 Jan 2021
2. Roy Peter Clark.  “Telling It Like It Is: When Writing News Requires a Distance From Neutrality.”  Poynter.  23 Jan 2021

3. Celine Castronuovo.  “James Murdoch Predicts ‘A Reckoning’ For Media After Capitol Riots.”  The Hill. 15 Jan 2021

4. Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson and Keith Collins.  “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before The Capitol Siege.”  New York Times.  10 Feb 2021 

5. Brian Klaas.  “He Worked In Russia Media.  He Recognizes The Same Tactics At Fox News.”  Washington Post.  23 Mar 2021

6. Peter Pomerantsev.  “Sean Hannity’s Learned Helplessness.”  The American Interest.  27 Apr 2018

7.  Christopher Rufo.  Twitter.

8. Mike Hixenbaugh.  “A Viral Video Forced a Wealthy Texas Suburb To Confront Racism.  A 'Silent Majority' Fought Back.”  NBC News.  22 Jan 2021

9. Nikole Hannah-Jones.  “The 1619 Project.”  New York Times.  August 2019

10. Lexi Nahl.  “’Critical Race Theory’ Now Banned in Florida Public Schools.”  CBS 12 News.  10 June 2021

11. Jeremy Barr.  “Critical Race Theory is the hottest topic on Fox News. And it’s only getting hotter.”  Washington Post.  24 June 2021

12. Katie Robertson and Stuart A. Thompson. “Conservative Media Pay Little Attention to Revelations About Fox News.” New York Times. 3 Mar 2023