Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Aug 20, 2024 | allafrica.com | Amelia Johns |Francesco Bailo |Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online. But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The tech giant has replaced it with its new Content Library, which it says will serve the same purpose and be "more user friendly". As long-time users of CrowdTangle to track and analyse online misinformation campaigns, we are sceptical of this claim.

Aug 20, 2024 | theafricanmirror.africa | Amelia Johns |Francesco Bailo |Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

FOR more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online. But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The tech giant has replaced it with its new Content Library, which it says will serve the same purpose and be “more user friendly”. As long-time users of CrowdTangle to track and analyse online misinformation campaigns, we are sceptical of this claim.

Aug 15, 2024 | theconversation.com | Amelia Johns |Francesco Bailo |Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online. But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The tech giant has replaced it with its new Content Library, which it says will serve the same purpose and be “more user friendly”. As long-time users of CrowdTangle to track and analyse online misinformation campaigns, we are sceptical of this claim.

Apr 17, 2024 | psypost.org | Emily Booth |Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

As misinformation and radicalisation rise, it’s tempting to look for something to blame: the internet, social media personalities, sensationalised political campaigns, religion, or conspiracy theories. And once we’ve settled on a cause, solutions usually follow: do more fact-checking, regulate advertising, ban YouTubers deemed to have “gone too far”.

Mar 23, 2024 | techxplore.com | Amelia Johns |Emily Booth |Francesco Bailo |Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

During the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right and anti-vaccination communities that spread dangerous conspiracy theories. These included the false claims that vaccines are a form of population control, and that the virus was a "deep state" plot. Governments and the World Health Organization redirected precious resources from vaccination campaigns to debunk these falsehoods.