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Cloudflare v. Arcom: DNS blocking, EU sanctions, and the limits of the Digital Services Act
This blogpost, although very long, is a very simplified summary of the legal wranglings about an order placed on Cloudflare to block access to sanctioned Russian outlets for users of its DNS service in France.
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491 pages of monthly COVID-19 disinformation monitoring reports from Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter, dated from August 2020 to March 2021, squeezed into 2 colourful timelines and 1 article.
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Although a clear and widely accepted definition of CIB is currently missing, the concept of malicious account networks, using varying ways of interacting with each other, is observed as central to any attempt to identify CIB
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Vaccines did not receive very significant media coverage in the Russian state-controlled media in French (namely Sputnik France and Russia Today En Français) until Russia had a candidate vaccine.
As Rappler journalists report from Manila, the absurd claim that the family of the late dictator and president Ferdinand Marcos owns a million tons of gold is still proliferating on YouTube, despite debunks by historians and independent fact checkers in the Philippines.
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We hope this methodology will help researchers and NGOs to populate their investigations and reports with evidence of CIB. This could improve the communication channels between independent researchers and online platforms to provide a wider and more public knowledge of platforms policies and takedowns around CIB and Information Operations.
As a follow-up from our earlier investigation, here we examine the subsequent question of how anti-vaccine disinformation spreads in countries where Facebook does not have independent third-party fact-checkers.
Major platforms have found themselves in the role of first responders, responsible for removing what is in some cases life-threatening health misinformation, as well as for disseminating essential updates about the sanitary situation, government measures and advice from health professionals.
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This is the first of a two part look at COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and Facebook and the platform’s failings when moderating anti-vaxx and vaccine hesitant stances.
As we approach the one-year mark on the COVID-19 pandemic, we take a close look at how online platforms have responded to health and political disinformation on their services.
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Even with their 3rd party fact checking program, misinformation continues to spread on Facebook – through its chat app, Facebook Messenger.
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An investigation by Raquel Miguel.
Tierrapura.org appeared in Argentina at the end of March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming to gather a “group of concerned citizens” that provides “really important information” that was “being hidden (…) due to the manipulation of the communist regime in China”, as stated in its website.
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Following our earlier research on the loopholes in the enforcement of Facebook policies, this blogpost focuses on content moderation shortcomings on Twitter and YouTube. In particular, we show that disinformative claims that wrongly link COVID-19 and 5G technology often remain undetected.