Social media and misinformation

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  These TikTok Creators Are Fighting Health Myths

  The New York Times - Rina Raphael

  “I’m willing to bet you know at least one girl that’s using steroids every single day,” starts a young man in a TikTok video. He stares into the camera, continuing his big, yet notably false, reveal: “One in three girls these days is taking the birth control pill, and believe it or not, the birth …

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  Supreme Court’s Roe Decision Forces Social Media Sites to Confront Misinformation Yet Again

  Bloomberg - Davey Alba

  The US Supreme Court has likely touched off yet another flood of misinformation for social media companies reluctant to deal with the issue. But …

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  How Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online

  scientificamerican.com - Jenna Sherman

  The Supreme Court’s decision to curtail abortion rights has come to fruition. One of the outcomes that will be less discussed is how more people in …

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  Twitter will now label and suppress misinformation surrounding armed conflict and other crises

  CNN - By Brian Fung

  Washington (CNN Business) — Twitter will now apply warning labels to — and cease recommending — claims that outside experts have identified as misinformation during fast-moving times of crisis, the social media company said Thursday. The platform's new crisis misinformation policy is designed to …

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  The Technology 202: The future of social media could be decided by the Supreme Court

  The Washington Post

  Good morning and TGIF! We’re filling in for Cristiano today. Twitter shares fell this morning after Elon Musk tweeted that his bid to buy the company was temporarily on hold. Here's our colleeagues' must-read story. Below: Lawmakers want tech companies to archive potential war crimes in Ukraine, and …

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  TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks

  The New York Times - Ezra Klein

  At the core of the frenzied interest in Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is an intuition that I think is right: The major social media platforms are, in some hard-to-define way, essential to modern life. Call them town squares. Call them infrastructure. They exist in some nether region between …