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Happy 2022. Or is it? If you worried democracy itself was under attack in 2021, you may want to sit 2022 out.
As we look at 2021 in the rearview mirror, two trends stand out. The first — attacks on democracy as the best form of governance humans have yet invented — accelerated around the world. For the last 70 years liberal democracy was *mostly* undisputed as the best way to deliver social and economic development to large numbers of people.
The Global Disinformation Index and NELEŽ (Get Real) Partner to Combat Advertising-Funded Disinformation
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) and NELEŽ have partnered to support each other’s efforts to defund online sources of disinformation. Both non-profit organisations seek to identify the most egregious digital publishers of disinformation and disrupt their advertising-funded business models by encouraging brands, suppliers and ad tech vendors to blocklist them.
“This is our way of protecting the world”: The Telegram Fake Vaccination Card Economy
Marketplaces for fake vaccine cards have appeared across the social web. But one platform, Telegram, is arguably under-discussed in relation to this problem: the chat app harbors communities of tens of thousands of people exchanging fake vaccine cards for money, targeting at least a dozen countries all over the world.
Suspicious Twitter Hashtag Networks Promote Pro-China Line On Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
CRT Discourse on YouTube May Create Radicalization Pipeline to anti-LGBTQ Content
Want Less Awful Content? Stop Focusing on Content Moderation.
Why do we need to stop arguing about content moderation?