social media bias

Chris WhiteMay 27, 2020
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Twitter Dings Trump’s Tweets But Refuses To Fact Check Chinese Officials’ Virus Misinformation
Twitter fact-checked President Donald Trump Tuesday for suggesting California’s mail-in ballots are fraudulent, yet the company has declined to make…
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US News
Peter HassonMay 27, 2020
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‘Wretched Orange Man’: Twitter Official Overseeing Misinformation Efforts Is Anti-Trump Partisan Who Donated To Planned Parenthood
The Twitter official overseeing the tech company’s efforts to combat misinformation is a left-wing partisan who in the past has…
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Andrew KerrMay 26, 2020
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YouTube Automatically Deletes Any Comments That Contain Certain Phrases Insulting To Chinese Communist Party
Youtube’s enforcement algorithm is automatically removing any comments that contain one of two Chinese-language phrases that are critical of the…
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Chris WhiteMay 24, 2020
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Trump Considering Forming Panel To Review Anti-Conservative Bias In Big Tech: Report
President Donald Trump is considering forming a commission to review anti-conservative bias on social media platforms, The Wall Street Journal…
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Science, Technology, and Social Media
Chris WhiteMay 12, 2020
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Twitter Rolls Out COVID Misinformation Warning Labels. Will They Target Chinese Officials Who Blame US For Outbreak?
Twitter will now slap warning labels and other messages on coronavirus-related content the company deems harmful but perhaps not harmful…
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Chris WhiteMarch 16, 2020
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Twitter Nixes Sheriff Clarke’s Coronavirus Tweets, Leaves Up Chinese Official’s Tweet Blaming US For Virus Outbreak
Twitter removed tweets from Sheriff David Clarke that mention coronavirus, yet the company has still not taken action against a…
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Chris WhiteMarch 13, 2020
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Twitter Refuses To Remove Chinese Official’s Tweet Suggesting US Army Introduced Virus Into Wuhan
A Chinese official’s tweets suggesting the U.S. army is responsible for injecting coronavirus into Wuhan, China will not be removed,…
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Chris WhiteMarch 11, 2020
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REPORT: DNC Asked Twitter To Label Trump Campaign’s Video ‘Manipulated Media’ On Behalf Of Biden Team
The Democratic Party asked Twitter to do something about a heavily edited video the Trump reelection campaign produced of former…
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Chris WhiteMarch 9, 2020
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Trump Campaign, Tech Analysts Scrutinize Twitter’s ‘Manipulated Media’ Label After Biden Video Flap
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign pushed back Monday against Twitter’s decision to call out the team for deceptively editing a…
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Science, Technology, and Social Media
Mary Margaret OlohanFebruary 1, 2020
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TikTok Reinstates Live Action Account, Apologizes And Cites ‘Human Error’
TikTok reinstated a pro-life group’s account Friday and cited “human error” after the platform said Live Action was permanently banned…
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Audrey ConklinNovember 8, 2019
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Facebook Removes Ads Identifying Ukraine Whistleblower
Facebook removed ads identifying the Ukraine whistleblower by name after hundreds of thousands of users had already seen them, The…
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Chris WhiteNovember 7, 2019
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Google Considers Political Ad Policy Change As Democrats Worry About Potential Backlash
Google and Facebook are considering a change to their political ad policies that would alter micro-targeting, a form of advertising…
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Audrey ConklinOctober 31, 2019
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Google Says It ‘Mistakenly Disapproved’ A Conservative Think Tank’s Video About Climate Change
Google said it mistakenly disapproved a video advertisement about radical climate-change ideals by Capital Research Center. “This ad was mistakenly…
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Chris WhiteOctober 1, 2019
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REPORT: Row Over Abortion, Climate Change Spurs Facebook To Exempt Opinion, Advocacy From Fact Checks
Facebook plans to exempt opinion content and political advocacy organizations from the social media giant’s independent fact checking efforts, The…
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Chris WhiteSeptember 24, 2019
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Facebook Removed False Label After Scientists Said Climate ‘Alarmist’ Fact Checkers Are Targeting Them
Facebook dinged a fact check after climate scientists said a partisan fact-checking group the company uses is defaming them. Another…
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