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Critics Miffed as Meta Restricts Access to Content Monitoring Tool
GW’s Rebekah Tromble and UMD’s Cody Buntain expressed mixed reactions to Meta’s plans to replace its data tool, CrowdTangle, with a new one named Meta Content Library coming this August.
Does Banning Extremists Online Work? It Depends.
GW’s Rebekah Tromble tells Vox that the broad reach of far-right extremist groups, such as QAnon, Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, has diminished since they banned from mainstream social media apps.
Israel-Hamas War Misinformation on Social Media is Harder to Track, Researchers Say
GW’s Rebekah Tromble tells NBC News that a pullback in content moderation on social media has helped propaganda about the Israel-Hamas conflict spread.
Disinformation Researchers Under Investigation: What’s Happening and Why
GW’s Rebekah Tromble tells Nature that scientists have been targeted by legal actions and information requests from conservative activists and leaders before—and it’s not likely to stop anytime soon.
Launch of the EDMO Working Group for the Creation of an Independent Intermediary Body to Support Research on Digital Platforms
GW’s Rebekah Tromble is part of a working group developing an organizational model for a new independent intermediary body that will facilitate data sharing between digital platforms.
GW Research Pushes to the Future
GW’s Rebekah Tromble was recognized for her work on an NSF-funded project that led to the development of a platform that aids journalists facing coordinated campaigns of online harassment.
The National Science Foundation Awards $5 Million to IDDP Team to Continue Work Assisting Journalists Facing Online Harassment
GW’s Rebekah Tromble is leading a team of researchers that are working to build a platform where female journalists can report abuse and tap into an array of support.
Twitter Whistleblower Unlikely to Spur Congressional Action
GW’s Rebekah Tromble weighs in on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing with a former Twitter security chief turned whistleblower who revealed data security issues at the social media company.
Misinformation on Facebook Got Six Times More Clicks Than Factual News During the 2020 Election, Study Says
GW’s Rebekah Tromble tells The Washington Post that a study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election adds to the growing evidence that misinformation is still prevalent on the app, despite mitigation efforts.