Excited to see these changes to the FB & IG Feeds ahead of the 2020 US Elections: Content that has been rated false or partly false by a third-party fact-checker will be “hidden” with a prominent overlay that links out to the assessment from the fact-checker. 👏🏽

🚨Out now in Nature!🚨 A fundamentally new way of fighting misinfo online: Surveys+field exp w >5k Twitter users show that gently nudging users to think about accuracy increases quality of news shared- bc most users dont share misinfo on purpose nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/

Among the 2021-2022 Magic Grants is a "bi-coastal" project from @ryanmoorecomm, a PhD candidate in SU Social Media Lab, and Jueni Duyên Trần Columbia Journalism School PhD, who are designing interventions to help older adults identify misinformation online.

We've got a trailer! The first episode of How We Got Here drops August 3 – subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

#HWGH is live! jelani cobb speaks with @KhalilGMuhammad in the first episode of "How We Got Here,” a new podcast out today. Listen on Spotify or Apple – hwgh.carrd.co

“If you're willing to be critical of this notion that there are certain people who are the adults in the room, then you get a much wider set of intellectual possibilities." Sheila Coronel, @dimmerwahr & @ProfVVG talk counternarratives of US empire: hwgh.carrd.co #HWGH

“The quiet of the abandoned plant and that riot at the US Capitol – they’re connected.” In episode 4 of “How We Got Here,” Dale Maharidge speaks to Sherry Linkon about the link between the decline of industrial America and the Jan. 6 insurrection: hwgh.carrd.co #HWGH

“When people flee dictatorships that are propped up by the US, all of a sudden they're not political refugees, they're economic migrants.” Nina Alvarez & Mae Ngai discuss the invention of the “illegal alien” and its use to exclude and exploit POC: hwgh.carrd.co #HWGH

The 2021-2022 cohort of Magic Grants is special - it marks the The Brown Institute's 10th anniversary! In this group is the bi-coastal team "Getting Wise to Fake News: Large-Scale Digital Media Literacy Interventions for Older Adults"...

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🚨 New article alert 🚨 “Sharing and social media: The decline of a keyword?” is live in New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… I revisit “Sharing and Web 2.0: The emergence of a keyword” (2012) to see what’s new with “sharing”. Spoiler alert: lots! Abstract 👇🏻 and 🧵 1/

This is insane. This is what I’ve been alluding to for months now. This is an epochal transformative technology that will soon touch - and radically transform - ALL knowledge work. If most of your work involves sitting in front of a computer, you will be disrupted very, very