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The biggest spender on pro-Trump Facebook ads (besides his campaign) “straddles the line between an ultraconservative news outlet and a conspiracy warehouse”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 8, 2019

If Facebook goes private, where will the misinformation go?

Plus: YouTube adds fact-checks (in India), and Facebook moves to combat anti-vaxxing after receiving loads of public pressure.

Matthew Motta, Dominik Stecula, and Kathryn HaglinDecember 6, 2018

“Fake flus!” When it comes to health, battling misinformation requires strategic thinking

Politics isn’t the only place where countering misinformation is tricky business: “The best evidence suggests that a more effective way of dealing with misinformation is not spreading it in the first place. That means avoiding repeating various myths — even if you’re debunking them.”

Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-MoralesNovember 26, 2018

New data suggests African audiences see significantly more misinformation than Americans do

More than a quarter of Kenyans and Nigerians surveyed said they had shared stories that they knew were made up.

The New York Times asked for examples of election disinformation — and got 4,000 responses

Christine SchmidtSeptember 19, 2018

How France beat back information manipulation (and how other democracies might do the same)

“French success resulted from a combination of structural factors, luck, as well as the effective anticipation and reaction of the Macron campaign staff, the government, and civil society, especially the mainstream media.”

Nancy Watzman, Katie Donnelly, and Jessica ClarkSeptember 5, 2018

What approaches are in play for fighting misinformation? Let us count the ways

Sometimes what you need is a good taxonomy.

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Filippo MenczerJune 20, 2018

These are the three types of bias that explain all the fake news, pseudoscience, and other junk in your News Feed

Indiana University researchers “have found that steep competition for users’ limited attention means that some ideas go viral despite their low quality — even when people prefer to share high-quality content.”

Papua New Guinea’s government said it would shut down Facebook for a month to conduct “research.” It’s now walking that back somewhat

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