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Shraddha ChakradharMarch 10, 2022

“Perfect moderation does not exist,” but here are some lessons from Twitter’s labels of Trump tweets

“How can you make people discuss [information] instead of polarizing them further?” A new study offers some clues.

Joshua BentonFebruary 28, 2022

Russia’s fighting a media war, too, with platforms, regulators, and business partners

From ad monetization to cable carriage, there’s a battle going on over the ways Russia gets its messaging out.

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 24, 2022

Some resources for following the invasion of Ukraine

Lists, liveblogs, maps.

Shraddha ChakradharFebruary 23, 2022

Facebook is letting a lot of climate change denial slide despite promises to flag it, study finds

“[Labeling] was the major intervention that Facebook said it was going to do, and it hasn’t done it.”

Michelle A. AmazeenFebruary 7, 2022

Researchers looked at nearly 3,000 native ads across five years. Here’s what they found

“We counted all the native advertisements between 2014 and 2019 we could find from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.”

Taylor DotsonJanuary 18, 2022

Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better

“The more that a study looked like the real world, the less fact-checking changed participants’ minds.”

Mark Coddington and Seth LewisJanuary 3, 2022

Are partisan news sites to blame for polarization? A massive study suggests they’re not

Plus: Sadness-based news sharing, why journalists see audiences as more conservative than they are, and journalists’ community-building on Instagram.

The year advertisers stop boycotting news

“Restoring digital advertising to quality news publishers is a rare case where companies can do good and do well.” Gordon Crovitz

Leave fact-checking to the fact-checkers

“People use fact-checks to dunk on the other side, to cherry-pick information, and to counter-fact-check other fact-checks.” Jonas Kaiser

Fixing old media’s flawed foundations

“We never fixed what was broken about old media. Instead, we built something new on top of an already flawed foundation.” Zizi Papacharissi