Human Rights in a Country: Facebook Newsroom and the Impact of Elon Musk’s Facebook Restructuring Curtails Research and Spurs Legal Fears
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These are all the platforms that have banned Trump. On January 11, The Washington Post banned Trump from using social media.
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Source: Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter
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Source: Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter
What Can We Trust About Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimators? A Comment on “The Case of Causality in Social Networks”
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Why Facebook is all over the place: why the digital access divide is here to stay: a systemic review of literature investigating privacy trade-offs
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A review of possible harms from social media: Big lies vs big lawsuits, is that why a lawsuit is being brought by Dominion Voting?
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Facebook’s hate speech against the world – a case study in India, Spain, South Africa, and the UK: A multi-component analysis
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False information is everywhere: ‘Pre-bunking’ attempts to head it off early. An article by J.G., Korah, and other people
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Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive. Comment on ‘Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation’
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Why do many fake Facebook accounts fall into one? How Russia helped swing the election for Trump. A report on Apriler, J., 126 million false Facebook posts during the Russian-sponsored activities
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Americans, misinformation and bias in news: How quickly we forget: the effect of persuasive advertising on selective exposure to climate change news
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Facebook as the Real Silent Majority: What should we do? A report by the New York Times and Msn is a no-go theorem
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How to Fix the Social Network Algorithm? M. Eslami, M. Eckles, and M. Rodr’e Rogers
Rogers said that the social networking site’s algorithm is broken. We have a suggestion on how to fix it. FiveThirtyEight, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/facebooks-algorithm-is-broken-we-collected-some-spicy-suggestions-on-how-to-fix-it/ (16 November 2021).
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Facebook Removed the News Feed Algorithm In An Experiment Then It GAVEUP 25c8cb0a35a3
The news feed was removed as part of an experiment. Then it gave up. OneZero, https://onezero.medium.com/facebook-removed-the-news-feed-algorithm-in-an-experiment-then-it-gave-up-25c8cb0a35a3 (25 October 2021).
The activity of parler users on fringe social media was not decreased by deplatforming. PNASNexus 2, pgad035. The paper shows that when Parler was shut down, it displaced users from other fringe social media websites.
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