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Hanaa' TameezNovember 7, 2023

How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels

We talked to the Financial Times, La Nación, The New York Times, Vox, Chilango, the Times of India, and others about their early experiments sharing news on the world’s favorite messaging app.

Luke Thorburn and Aviv OvadyaOctober 31, 2023

Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how

“It falls to both the tech companies that built these systems and an engaged public to create technologies designed for social cohesion.”

Michael SerazioOctober 30, 2023

Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting Twitter/X as the most “authentic” social media platform

“Threads’ vibes may have been cheerful and friendly at the outset — disingenuously so, according to Musk — but it may well prove that, eventually, all social media sites regress toward the meanest.”

Sisanda Nkoala, Blessing Makwambeni and Trust MatsileleOctober 24, 2023

Young South Africans are shaping the news through community radio — via social media

“This would sustain community radio and enhance its role as a vital source of alternative voices, diverse perspectives, and local engagement.”

Sophie CulpepperAugust 30, 2023

With five old phones and some Pew data, the BBC’s Marianna Spring monitors social media from the inside

“The reason I have to have undercover voters is because social media sites won’t — and to some extent, can’t — tell you exactly what they’re recommending every single voter.”

Ian Anderson, Gizem Ceylan and Wendy WoodAugust 8, 2023

People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed

“After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based.” (Though the tweaks involved paying people to do so.)

TikTok and Instagram are the only social networks that are growing as news sources for Americans

Hanaa' TameezSeptember 21, 2022

“You don’t know which side is playing you”: The authors of Meme Wars have some advice for journalists

“The media treating Twitter like an assignment editor is one of the fundamental errors that enabled meme warriors to play everyone.”

Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann-LeaAugust 31, 2022

Most local election offices still aren’t on social media, new research finds

“Our analysis finds that the vast majority of local election officials don’t even have social media accounts beyond Facebook. And, when they do, it is likely that they are not effectively reaching their audience.”

Homa HosseinmardiAugust 11, 2022

Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization than social media, study finds

“Compared to online audiences, partisan TV news consumers tend not to stray too far from their narrow sets of preferred news sources.”

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