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Measuring the monetization strategies of websites with application to pro- and anti-vaccine communities

Anti-vaccine content and other kinds of misinformation are hypothesized to be more heavily monetized than other kinds of online content.

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Facebook's Design Makes It Unable to Control Misinformation

In a new study, researchers analyze the world’s largest social media platform and its efforts to remove COVID-19 vaccine misinformation during the pandemic.

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How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

The work of trying to minimize the influence of harmful misinformation is both exhausting and essential.

The Siasat Daily

Facebook failed to control Covid misinformation due to its design, reveals study

The Covid-19 vaccine misinformation policies of Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, were not effective in combating misinformation

Tech Times

Facebook's COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Policies Fail as Design Features Undermine Effectiveness: Study

The removal of a major anti-vaccine page in November 2020 by Facebook didn’t reduce misinformation

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New research reveals weakness in Facebook’s fake news policies

Facebook's design makes it unable to control fake news, suggests a new study.

Medpage Today

Social Media Giant's Efforts to Stymie Antivax Content Had Mixed Results

While Facebook's policy on removing repeat offenders who post COVID-19 vaccine misinformation may have reduced the number of posts in anti-vaccine pages/groups

New Scientist

Facebook change to control covid-19 vaccine misinformation failed

The removal of a major anti-vaccine page in November 2020 by Facebook didn’t reduce misinformation

What Washington should be doing to tackle AI risks

A who’s-who of the tech world appeared in DC on Wednesday for a closed-door meeting to talk to senators about the future of AI regulation.

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Gates, Zuckerburg, Musk, other tech giants join senators in closed-door AI forum

Some of the country’s biggest tech titans descended on Washington, D.C., on Wednesday