A 2020 analysis by the activist group Avaaz estimated that the algorithm Facebook uses generated 3.8 billion views of health misinformation in just one year. Another problem: Lies, fake news, and pseudoscience can be made more compelling (microchips in the vaccines!) than the boring old truth...
Global-Local Internet Activism in Brazil: Campaigns, Online Petitions and Action Organization As a Borderline Movement This paper exams the relation between the local, national and global sphere relations within the communication process occurring within Avaaz, a global platform for online petitions, with...