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A shop in Tahrir Square is spray painted with the word "Twitter" after the government shut off internet access on February 4, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.

Disinformation Wars in Egypt: The Inauthentic Battle on Twitter between Egyptian Government and Opposition

The streets of Egypt are quiet, but last month Twitter seemed to suggest otherwise. Joey Shea and Alexei Abrahams explain why, tracking evidence of warring disinformation campaigns…
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Facebook and Twitter’s Handling of New York Post Hunter Biden Story Bodes Poorly for Post-Election Period

"There are three actions all social media platforms must pursue to avoid playing directly into these critics’ arguments and to avoid misperceptions."
A protester holds a sign with a red heart reading the hashtags 'spreadlove' and 'stophate' during an anti right wing demonstration near the place of the terror attack on a christmas market in Berlin on December 21, 2016.

GIFCT: Possibly the Most Important Acronym You’ve Never Heard Of

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) raises questions about who decides what counts as terrorism or the even more loosely defined extremism.
Trump’s tweet from May 29th. Twitter marked the tweet with a banner reading, “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible. Learn more” The tweet itself is not shown in this image.

Ignore Trump’s Twitter Tantrum Executive Order and Address Disinformation Instead

The solution is not to give government or platforms more power to make opaque, arbitrary decisions on content, but to help users protect themselves.
Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC.

Trump’s Executive Order Targets Twitter, Capitalizing on Right-Wing Grievance

Even if it doesn't lead to action, the threat of regulatory pressure aims to bully social media companies into continuing their hands-off approach to Trump.
A cell phone shows tweets from Trump in response to an editorial in the New York Times. September 6, 2018

Public Officials Can’t Block Critics from Official Social Media Accounts

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied the Trump administration’s request for full court review of last year’s decision holding that the president…
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Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s ‘Transparency Report’ Raises More Questions Than Answers

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism doesn’t go far enough in allaying concerns about the negative impacts on freedom of expression facilitated by this opaque, private…
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Corporate Defenses Against Information Warfare

When asked about Russian election interference during his congressional testimony last month, Robert Mueller said: “They’re doing it as we sit here.” We now know that part…
A visitor takes a selfie near a framed tweet by US President Donald Trump at "The Daily Show Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library" exhibition in Washington, DC on June 14, 2019. The tweet is from August 6, 2012 and reads, “An ‘extremely credible source’ called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud.”

The Distorter-in-Chief is Hosting a Summit on Distortion on Social Media

By pushing Russian-planted disinformation and indulging America’s own conspiracy theorists, Trump is doing the opposite of what he claims to be attempting with the White House…

Two New Reports Expose How Black Americans Are Targeted by Russian Disinformation

Russian disinformation exploits American racial divisions. But Russian manipulation of both sides of political spectrum may, in the end, galvanize social media companies and Congress…
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Exploring Gray Zones and LikeWar

"This is a book about how a new kind of communications became a new kind of war,” Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking write in their new book: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social…

How Trump’s Pressure on Google Threatens Government Manipulation of Search Results

Tech behemoths just can’t catch a break these days. Just as they are struggling to meet calls to contain the spread of misinformation and hate speech online, they are being bashed…
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