Alabama 3, ‘Facebook.con’: The Week In One Song Christopher Federico - October 28, 2021 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen via smartphone, unveils the Meta
Facebook has an invisible system that shelters powerful rule-breakers. So do other online platforms. Tarleton Gillespie and Robyn Caplan - September 17, 2021 Is it fair to be unfair, as long as you’re open about it?
Facebook’s Oversight Board upheld the ban on Trump, but it didn’t like how Facebook banned him Henry Farrell - May 5, 2021 The board wants Facebook to revisit its decision in six months and create more consistent rules
Twitter put warning labels on hundreds of thousands of tweets. Our research examined which worked best. Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, and Joshua Tucker - December 8, 2020 Without a hard block, tweets continue to spread — especially tweets by President Trump
When Twitter fact-checks Trump’s tweets, it polarizes Americans even more, our research finds Sarah Kreps, Douglas Kriner, and Dino Christenson - November 24, 2020 Fact-checking this president backfires.
Conservatives say Google and Facebook are censoring them. Here’s the real background. Shannon C. McGregor and Daniel Kreiss - July 31, 2019 The social media giants say they don’t want to regulate political speech. But they already are.
Why do Facebook and Twitter’s anti-extremist guidelines allow right-wingers more freedom than Islamists? Anna Meier - July 31, 2019 Relying on governments to designate organizations as terrorists means “de-platforming” is always political.
Why Facebook is pushing Libra Ben Power - June 20, 2019 Facebook’s new digital currency comes with large risks.
Uber issues its IPO this week. Tomorrow its drivers are threatening a worldwide strike. Ashley Nunes - May 7, 2019 Who’s for — and who’s against — regulating its relationship with its workers?
Fake news is bad news for democracy. James Hollyer, James Vreeland, and Peter Rosendorff - April 5, 2019 Unreliable information shapes voter choices — and election outcomes.