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The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

August 13, 2025

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We’re Back to the Actually Internet

Kaitlyn Tiffany

May 5, 2025

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Nobody Look at Mark Zuckerberg

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 4, 2024

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‘Stop Counting Votes, or We’re Going to Murder Your Children’

October 25, 2024

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I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

October 10, 2024

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The Atlantic Daily

What the White House Is Doing on Reddit

October 10, 2024

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Georgia’s Election-Law Problems Aren’t Legal Ones

October 3, 2024

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It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem

Scott Duke Kominers and Jesse Shapiro

March 22, 2024

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Tolerating COVID Misinformation Is Better Than the Alternative

Conor Friedersdorf

March 7, 2022

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What’s the Harm in Medical Misinformation?

Conor Friedersdorf

February 11, 2022

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Facebook Is Hiding the Most Important Misinformation Data

Ethan Zuckerman and The Conversation

November 3, 2021

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The Al Capone Approach to Anti-vaxxers

Kaitlyn Tiffany

September 23, 2021

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The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided

March 15, 2021

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Who Would Volunteer to Fact-Check Twitter?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 3, 2021

The Year That Changed the Internet

December 28, 2020

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Social Distance

Listen: Misinformation Mailbag

December 6, 2020

When Your Family Spreads Misinformation

June 16, 2020

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How to Talk About the Coronavirus

March 31, 2020

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Here’s How to Fight Coronavirus Misinformation

Andy Carvin and Graham Brookie

March 29, 2020

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