Astroturfing

Citation: Pierri F, Artoni A, Ceri S (2020) Investigating Italian disinformation spreading on Twitter in the context of 2019 European elections. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227821 Editor: Fabiana Zollo, Ca Foscari Uni…

BBC Duped into Promoting Marketing Scheme for Microdosing Psychedelics Advocates are hailing psychedelics as the next big thing in healthcare; proclaiming their utility for everything from treatment resistant depression, to managing inflammation, to increasi…

The reputation management industry has come a long way since the BIA Kelsey Group predicted that it would become a $5 billion industry sector by 2016. Indeed, there are more review management solutions, sentiment analysis monitoring services, and agencies eng…

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Meghan Murphy has exactly two possible explanations for my existence: I’m either lying; or I’m deluded. It must be said that in the months this post took to write, the moral panic against trans people has accelerated a breakneck pace. Maya Forstater made hea…

Annual Review of 2019: The State of the Empire at the End of a Decade This year marks the end of the second decade of the 21st-century, and as we enter the third decade one prediction seems to be warranted: the 2020s will see the most marked and unambiguous …

As Microsoft employees clink glasses and toast the holidays, its easy to see why. Business is booming, share prices are at an all-time high. Even the future looks brightwith dual-screen Surface devices, and maybe a revised Windows waiting in the wings. But w…

PISA scores were recently released, and results of the international test revealed that only 14 percent of U.S. students were able to reliably distinguish between fact and opinion. This is particularly alarming because we live in an era when, according to P…

This interview first appeared in The Drum's print edition in October 2019. You can still pick up a copy of that issue here, and you can subscribe to The Drum magazine here. Rankin: One of the weirdest things about the last three years is that your story wasn…

A century ago, after the hardships of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Roaring 1920s ushered in economic prosperity and social progress. The decade saw the expansion of the automobile, telephone, radio, electrification and consumer appliances.…