THE FACEBOOK INVESTIGATIONS
Who Were the Key Players Responsible for Facebook’s Support to Modi and the BJP?
The Conversations
Articles, News, Controversies
- Ad transparency tools will help users have a check over political ads in India
- Social media prone to more misuse and spread of misinformation at times of elections
- Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp remove 500 posts in the last 48 hours
- Facebook adds a new feature to tackle "low-quality" content
- Fake news rampant with 1 in 2 Indians receiving it via WhatsApp, Facebook
- Facebook rep lands up at FB user's doorsteps
- FB takes AI help to shut down accounts spreading misinformation
- Facebook bans white extremist content in the US
- Users won't be added to WhatsApp groups without their consent
- WhatsApp launched Tip line ahead of general elections
- Facebook, Google pressured EU expert group to soften fake news regulations
- Facebook patent plans to scan users' photos for ads
- Almost 9% of Facebook accounts are fake, says company
- Facebook bans white nationalist and separatist content
- Facebook stored millions of passwords unprotected
- Facebook caught lobbying against data privacy laws
- Apps share sensitive user data with FB
- News algorithm draws ire from advertisers
- Facebook users cannot avoid location-based ads
- Facebook exempts tech giants from privacy wall
Videos, Watchdogs, Tools
- Hoaxy
Hoaxy is a tool that visualises the spread of articles online found on Twitter, or in a corpus of claims and related fact checking. The Hoaxy corpus tracks the social sharing of links to stories published by two types of websites: (1) Low-credibility sources and (2) Independent fact-checking organisations.
- ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.
- Media Bias Fact Check
Media Bias/Fact Check, founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet. It is dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices. The aim is to inspire action and a rejection of overtly biased media and to return to an era of straight forward news reporting
- Wolfram Alpha
A “computational knowledge engine.” aims “to collect and curate all objective data and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.” For example: to find facts about past weather for a given place and date, which can be helpful to determine the credibility of claims about a photograph.
- Alexa
Alexa allows you to plug in a website and learn which other sites are referring users to it, and what Google keywords will lead you it. Can help spot a group of news websites that are related in certain ways. Its suite of intuitive analytics products transforms data into meaningful insights.
- Botometer
Botometer checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. This is a tool to classify Twitter accounts as human or bot. Higher scores are more bot-like. Use of this service requires Twitter authentication and permissions.
Articles, Guides, Books
