Monthly Archives: November 2020

ICYMI: check out our discussion with Avaaz on Regulating Disinformation in the EU

Since the beginning of last week, a new COVID-19 conspiratorial documentary called “Hold-up” has been circulating on French-speaking social media.

Platforms’ management of mis- and disinformation was one of the major news stories of the 2020 US election cycle. But much of the work in areas like election integrity therefore lies beyond ‘platform deterministic’ logic, and will demand more than a platform by platform approach.

In the last moments before the US elections, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Instagram introduce more features to slow and preempt dis- and misinformation.