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Already the information pouring in at your fingertips can be overwhelming during a time like this. To help sort it out, MPR News guest host Emily Bright spoke with Emily Vraga. Vraga is an associate professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota and studies mis- and disinformation.
Within 24 hours of the latest development, Instagram was mired in controversy. When users tried Threads to search for content related to “covid” and “long covid,” they found a blank screen with no search results, along with a pop-up linking to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the report.
The incident is the latest indication that Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of which Threads is a part, is seeking to avoid controversy on Threads.
Major social media and technology companies continue to make algorithmic, user interface, and policy changes to their products to address information integrity challenges on their platforms.
Porismita Borah from Murrow College of Communication is a co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation-funded project to further develop Course Correct, a tool designed to help journalists identify and combat misinformation online.