Declining information quality under new platform governance
Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova and David Lazer
Following the leadership transition on October 27, 2022, Twitter/X underwent a notable change in platform governance. This study investigates how these changes influenced information quality for registered U.S. voters and the platform more broadly. We address this question by analyzing two complementary datasets—a Twitter panel and a Decahose sample.
Gendered disinformation as violence: A new analytical agenda
Marília Gehrke and Eedan R. Amit-Danhi
The potential for harm entrenched in mis- and disinformation content, regardless of intentionality, opens space for a new analytical agenda to investigate the weaponization of identity-based features like gender, race, and ethnicity through the lens of violence. Therefore, we lay out the triangle of violence to support new studies aiming to investigate multimedia content, victims, and audiences of false claims.