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Citizen truth brigades steer us back toward reality

“The people who run and rely upon basic community institutions will increasingly recognize how much they rely upon a common understanding of objective truth.” Matt DeRienzo

Common law will finally apply to the Internet

“Silicon Valley platforms might not like being compared to ships causing oil spills, but it’s time for the digital platforms to likewise be held accountable for the harm they cause through their information pollution.” Gordon Crovitz

Jane C. HuNovember 30, 2020

“Whoa!” “I’m crying!” “Worrisome!” “Buckle up!” The swift, complicated rise of Eric Feigl-Ding and his Covid tweet threads

The scientist has gained popularity as Covid’s excitable play-by-play announcer. But some experts want to pull his plug.

Alex NewhouseNovember 30, 2020

Parler is bringing together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites, and white supremacists as the social media platform attracts millions of Trump supporters

While it’s too early to tell if Parler is here to stay, it has already achieved a reputation and level of engagement that has overtaken other alternative platforms.

Joshua BentonNovember 16, 2020

So what did the 2020 election really mean, anyway? Here’s a first draft of media history, from 100-plus scholars

Including how research into sports fandom explains Trump supporters’ claims of voter fraud: “One’s degree of team identification is a major predictor for attributing a loss to external forces such as referees and opponents’ cheating, resulting in denial of the outcome.”

Mark Coddington and Seth LewisNovember 12, 2020

How are journalists like Instagram influencers? In some key ways, audiences judge them the same

Plus: How news organizations use TikTok, challenges in covering white nationalism, newsbot–audience communication, and the organizational behavior of Russia Today.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 30, 2020

Two new studies show, again, that Facebook doesn’t censor conservatives

Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Mike Lee says fact-checking is a form of censorship, and Wikipedia explains how it plans to fight Election Day misinformation.

What is The Epoch Times? A vehicle for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, and the culmination of all that Facebook has encouraged

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 5, 2020

A new study shows how Trump and the RNC duped traditional media into covering mail-in voter fraud

“To the extent that the mass media model we identify here is the primary driver of information disorder, it will not be cured by more fact checking on Facebook.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 2, 2020

Trump, down in the polls, ramps up assaults on the election’s legitimacy as Facebook does “worse than nothing”

Plus: How Trump’s 2016 digital campaign sought to suppress the Black vote, and people on both sides of the political spectrum are vulnerable to misinformation about mail dumping.