danah boyd's remarks from her keynote at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York City explore media manipulation, data security, and system vulnerabilities. Read on Points

D&S Media Manipulation Research Lead Joan Donovan talks about the role of large tech companies in curbing extremist activity online. Joan Donovan, a media manipulation research lead at the research institute Data & S... Read on Mic

"Lexicon of Lies" is an essential guide by Caroline Jack that covers terms and concepts for information that is inaccurate, misleading, inappropriately attributed, or altogether fabricated. Read more

Becca Lewis writes about media manipulation outside of the far-right and explains why the term "alt-left" is an example of false equivalence. Read on Points

Alice Marwick presents the major findings from her recently published report, Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online. Her talk describes how disinformation campaigns occur following major news events and explains how the ... Read more

Tarleton Gillespie critiques the opacity of Facebook’s content moderation policies, arguing that their process has become too complex and high-stakes to be left hidden from the public. Read on Points

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner share excerpts and discuss their book, The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online (Polity Press, April 2017).     This book explores the weird and... Read more

"Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online" delves into how various internet subcultures leverage both the techniques of participatory culture and the affordances of social media to spread their various beliefs. Read more

Sorbonne University, New York University’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and Data & Society Research Institute present “Post-Truth and New Realities: Algorithms, Alternative Facts, and Digital Ethics," a t... Read more

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, and Surya Mattu complete the Black Box series with an analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri that shows that some major insurers charge minority ... Read on ProPublica