What our first measurement says about disinformation on major platforms in Europe
Science Feedback and partners have released a first measurement of Structural Indicators across six Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) in…
Bastien Carniel
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Online misinformation pays. Why? Taking stock of a broad range of evidence
This report examines the financial infrastructure that enables misinformation in Europe through a broad analysis of advertising and monetization practices across major social media platforms and services offering ads on the open web (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube and Google Display Ads).
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An unfair (algorithmic?) advantage: a popularity premium for low-credibility accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram before the 2024 European Parliament elections
Analysis of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram data in the run-up to the 2024 European Parliament elections campaign highlight a substantial “popularity premium” benefitting low-credibility accounts when compared to a control group of high-credibility accounts
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Despite Community Notes, most content reviewed by fact-checkers in Europe goes unaddressed on X/Twitter
While X is presenting the crowd-sourced Community Notes system as a substitute for professional fact-checking, our results show that in a European context, Community Notes (and more broadly, X’s content moderation systems) fail to identify the posts flagged by professional fact-checkers, leaving misleading and oftentimes highly-viral content unaddressed.
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Science Feedback releases datasets of Web domain credibility
Assessing the reliability of online sources of information at scale is a necessary precondition for improving the quality of the…
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SCENT – Predicting domain credibility on the basis of backlink networks
Project overview Websites sharing low-credibility information tend to link to each other. To the contrary, websites with more stringent editorial…
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Consensus Credibility Scores: technical appendix
See main project description here I- Domain-level assessments – data sources 1- 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities Description: the…
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Consensus Credibility Scores: a comprehensive dataset of Web domains’ credibility
Summary Examining a source’s track record and editorial practices can be a useful guide in gauging the credibility with which…
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Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter
A study of accounts that have repeatedly published popular tweets linking to known misinformation shows that their collective popularity has significantly grown (on average, +42% interactions per tweet) since Elon Musk took effective control of the platform on 27 October 2022. These results appear to run afoul of Twitter’s commitments as a signatory of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation.
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Google’s demonetization of misinformation: one year on
ProPublica finds that Google still monetizes many websites and articles that promote harmful misinformation, much of which is in direct breach of its stated demonetization policy. Enforcement of its own rules on languages other than English is particularly lacking.
