Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
Social media platforms are abandoning news – which is bad news for traditional media organisations that have come to rely on them for consumers.
Citizens have sometimes been surprised to find public officials blocking people from viewing their social media feeds.
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Even people with years of relevant training can’t always tell whether social content is evidence-based and trustworthy. We need a better approach for communicating research.
There are some practical ways to filter the amount of violent and graphic content you see on social media.
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With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.
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In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Turning around the platform is a Musk.
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