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Facebook has prided itself on thorough moderation and removal of COVID-19 misinformation posted to its social network since March, but the company is now under fire for having failed to take action …
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Nick Statt | Verge
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7/28/20
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As the novel coronavirus began to make its way around the world earlier this year, an epidemic of online misinformation spread alongside it. Companies stepped up their moderation efforts — …
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Rick Noack | Washington Post
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7/23/20
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The news about COVID-19 tells the story of the whole world, countries, and individuals simultaneously. News about the pandemic is relevant to countries and global organizations that fight to contain …
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Shani Horowitz-Rozen | Medium
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7/22/20
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As the world continued to cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the second quarter of 2020 became the largest yet for mobile app downloads, usage, and consumer spending. According to new …
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Sarah Perez | TechCrunch
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7/9/20
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“War is the locomotive of history,” said Leon Trotsky in 1922, arguing that social developments that would normally unfold over decades can take place in months when conflict is raging. …
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Joey D'Urso | Reuters Institute
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7/6/20
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As the impact of the coronavirus started unfolding across the United States in March 2020, it became clear there was a strong need for a trusted source of factual information to make sense of data, …
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Nitya Chambers | INMA
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7/1/20
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The Reuters Institute’s 2020 Digital News Report makes the case that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to accelerate long-term structural changes toward a more digital, more mobile and more platform dominated news environment. But these trends …
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Nic Newman | Nieman Lab
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6/16/20
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The European Union on Wednesday accused China of a concerted effort to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, lumping it with the Kremlin as a global scofflaw seeking to sow divisions in European societies. It was the European …
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Michael Birnbaum | Washington Post
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6/11/20
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Fact-checkers across the globe are using audio, video and new social media channels to reach readers eager for credible and accessible information about COVID-19. Irish news website TheJournal.ie developed a WhatsApp channel in mid-March in …
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Harrison Mantas | Poynter
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6/10/20
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During crises and disasters, newsrooms need to be more cautious about what information they publish. The media should be careful not to incite undue panic. While one word can lead to widespread anxiety or panic; others can work to reassure. …
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Abdul Kareem Aouir | IJNET
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6/3/20
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Google has taken aggressive action to scrub coronavirus conspiracies from its news service and YouTube, at a time when social media companies have come under intense scrutiny for their potential to spread dangerous disinformation about the global …
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Ryan Gallagher and Mark Bergen | Bloomberg
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6/1/20
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Misinformation about the origins of Covid-19 is far more likely to be spread by pro-Trump, QAnon or Republican bots on Twitter than any other source, according to a study commissioned by the Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology. …
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Josh Taylor | Guardian
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6/1/20
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Local news stations are running a segment produced by Amazon touting its efforts to keep warehouse employees safe from the coronavirus. The segment includes pre-recorded footage of its fulfillment centers, interviews with workers and a prewritten …
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Annie Palmer | CNBC
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5/27/20
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Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Wednesday. Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets …
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Bobby Allyn | NPR
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5/21/20
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Last month, before Google and Apple announced their joint effort to enable COVID-19 exposure notifications, I wrote about the trouble with using Bluetooth-based solutions for contact tracing. Chief among the issues is getting a meaningful number of …
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Casey Newton | Verge
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5/21/20
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Twitter’s misinformation policy doesn’t cover a widely shared article claiming without evidence that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine has a “90 percent chance of helping” COVID-19 patients. No treatment, including …
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Adi Robertson | Verge
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5/20/20
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There have been plenty of jaw-dropping digital moments during the coronavirus pandemic. There was the time this month when Taylor Swift announced she would air her “City of Lover” concert on television. The time that the cast of “The …
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Sheera Frenkel, Ben Decker and Davey Alba | New York Times
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5/20/20
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Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Whether it’s helping people find reliable information in search, working with the government on testing, building an …
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Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn | Verge
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5/19/20
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The market dynamics of low ad prices and less buying by top advertisers has opened the door to a surge in coronavirus scam ads in programmatic marketplaces. Scam ads—ads with creative or domains that deliver false or misleading claims about …
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Lucinda Southern | Digiday
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5/19/20
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On March 14th, 2020, the New York Public Library closed all of their neighborhood branches. NYC DOE schools closed for the remainder of the school year the following day. On March 16th, the Local Voices Network hosted our first digital community …
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Max Resnik | Cortico
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5/19/20
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