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Sep 3, 2020, 5 tweets

Here's a quick thread of three top reads on coronavirus and information disorder for you today, collated by the First Draft monitoring team:

New research from @CCDHate and @RestlessDev found that fewer than 1 in 20 pieces of misinformation about vaccines were dealt with by the social media giants bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

@theguardian columnist Belinda Barnet warns that the stand-off between Facebook and Australia’s media regulators over news sharing on the platform could spell disaster for the country’s news outlets - and for the general public: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“The best time for Twitter to have killed off trends was a year ago. The second-best time is today” writes @CaseyNewton for @TheVerge

theverge.com/interface/2020…

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