Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial

 Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial, Reversing Earlier Policy (NPR)

New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets

Republicans and Democrats read a lot of the same news. What they do with it is a different question (Nieman Lab)

Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election

Guess, A.M., Nyhan, B. & Reifler, J. Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election. Nat Hum Behav 4, 472–480 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0833-x

Survey and web-traffic data from the 2016 US presidential campaign show that supporters of Donald Trump were most likely to visit these websites, which often spread through Facebook. However, these websites made up a small share of people’s information diets on average and were largely consumed by a subset of Americans with strong preferences for pro-attitudinal information. These results suggest that the widespread speculation about the prevalence of exposure to untrustworthy websites has been overstated.

A glowing story about Facebook

The Mystery of Teen Vogue’s Disappearing Facebook Article (NYT)

The 'Silicon Six' spread propaganda

The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites (Sacha Baron Cohen, WP)

In a corner of Brazil...

In a corner of Brazil, local reporters are switching to government jobs and the state is achieving “media capture” (NiemanLab)

Broadcasting propaganda to young viewers

Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube (Data & Society Research Institute)

Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary (Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard, University of Oxford)