Baloney Detection: Episode 7 - Social Media and Misinformation Part 1 – The Platforms

Episode Description

This will be the first episode in a series that goes deeper into how social media platforms operate and how misinformation spreads so easily on them. This episode will focus on the major platforms of social media, what kind of media they share and other important aspects of online speech that have given rise to how we share information online in the 2020s.

Resources

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-school-walls/202304/tribalism-in-the-age-of-social-media
• https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/attention_economy_feb.pdf
• https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/manipulated-media
• https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/misinformation
• https://www.tiktok.com/transparency/en-us/combating-misinformation/
• https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10834785?hl=en
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-07/elon-musk-cuts-more-twitter-staff-overseeing-content-moderation?embedded-checkout=true
• https://medium.com/@leoforman/ai-in-content-moderation-challenges-and-solutions-d26783a6a76b#:~:text=However%2C%20it's%20important%20to%20understand,based%20on%20context%20and%20judgment.
• https://www.jmir.org/2021/5/e26933/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164397/
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-023-01028-5

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