Facebook π£π, Do Fairytales Hold the Key to Disinformation: Inoculated Newsletter (28.10.2021)
Inoculated, a weekly newsletter that explores the intersection of anti-vaccine beliefs, technology, and politics
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Hi, welcome to the newsletter in a week that was dominated by news gleaned from the leak of a Facebook document trove. A number of news publications are still working on the documents, and it's not clear how much information we'll still see.
π°News of the week:
- Facebook researchers showed they could reduce COVID disinformation: Zuckerberg said no.
- Did Facebook exempt hate sites from policy enforcement?
- Academics and lawmakers asked Facebook to share insights on the spread of Covid disinformation. Facebook said no.
- A Telegram COVID-19 conspiracy group was rife with antisemitism, according to LogicallyAI.
- Twitter's home feed is actually biased toward amplifying conservative political content, according to Protocol.
β‘οΈIf you want to read up on all the Facebook stories, here's a link.
β¬οΈ Re-up of the week (First Draft, May, 2021)
![](https://firstdraftnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/41-2021-04-21-FB-Comment-monitoring-hero-featured-image-thumb.jpg)
π Longform of the week:
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/02083ad963756a219ac8c846cd17ac37e65dbf12/0_0_1280_768/master/1280.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=6734d1bb2f669652acde764ac2c2a9ac)
![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/10/22/us/politics/00Montana-1/00Montana-1-facebookJumbo.jpg)
πBonus read of the week:
![](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/Y50vZ_6DY2Y2a7M_Y6xtw7PW-ik=/3x37:2499x1337/960x500/media/img/mt/2021/10/GettyImages_508416243/original.jpg)
π²Tweet of the week:
(takes a deep breath): A teacup pig who went viral for living at a Park Slope firehouse just came out as an anti-vaxxer after posting a rant on its Instagram Stories opposing the FDNY vaccine mandate. https://t.co/hcjeWsiXGC
— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson) October 28, 2021
That's it for this week. Is there a story we should add to next week's newsletter? Someone we should interview on our podcast? Ping us!