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Facebook still a great place to amplify pre-election junk news, EU study finds
4:34 am PDT • May 21, 2019
A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media in Europe ahead of regional elections this month has found…
Media & Entertainment
Study of political junk on Facebook raises fresh questions about its metrics
2:23 am PST • November 6, 2018
A midterms election study of political disinformation being fenced by Facebook’s platform supports the company’s assertion that a clutch of mostly right-leaning and politically fringe Pages it removed in October for…
AI
Facebook’s election interference problem exponentially worse on eve of midterms, study suggests
7:45 am PST • November 5, 2018
An analysis of political advertisers running extensive campaigns on Facebook targeting users in the United States over the past six months has flagged a raft of fresh concerns about its…
