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…
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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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Sanctioned but Thriving: How Online Platforms Fail To Address the Widespread Presence of Entities Under EU Sanctions
given the ease with which such illegal content was discovered, Meta, Google, X/Twitter, TikTok and Telegram’s compliance teams should investigate why they seem not to have taken sufficient action to limit access.
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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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European Union: Sanctioned Russian media entities and individuals’ content accessible on YouTube and Google products
Despite EU sanctions, some Russian state-controlled media remains accessible to EU audiences on Google services.
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Use of information panels on YouTube videos containing misinformation – a ’quick check’ study
This quick check study suggests that the information panels applied by YouTube are highly unlikely to have the desired effect of connecting users to authoritative information on topics prone to disinformation.
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Authorities undertaking climate action targeted by viral “Climate lockdowns” narrative on social media
The increasing number of measures to limit greenhouse gas pollution that can be expected in the future will certainly present opportunities for future weaponization and misrepresentation. Writers, editors, and journalists should be aware of these manipulation tactics when discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 restrictions or future climate policies, knowing that some actors are trawling for any evidence to boost the manufactured ‘climate lockdown’ outrage.
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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.
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More than 80 fact-checking organizations call on YouTube to tackle misinformation
“The examples are too many to count. Many of those videos and channels remain online today, and they all went under the radar of YouTube’s policies, especially in non-English speaking countries and the Global South. We are glad that the company has made some moves to try to address this problem lately, but based on what we see daily on the platform, we think these efforts are not working“
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Demonetization of climate change misinformation on Youtube: a quick check on the implementation of Google Ads’ new policy
Google announced that any content, including YouTube videos, that ‘contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change’ would not be able to earn revenue from Google ads. Our quick experiment shows that the policy is not systematically applied.
