Today, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber) announced the launch of the Pitt Disinformation Lab (PDL).
PDL, directed by political science professor Michael Colaresi, aims to leverage Pitt’s interdisciplinary strengths to develop a community-focused system of detection, understanding and response to malicious influences online.
“It’s not just the federal government and social media platforms that have a role to play in combating disinformation,” said Pitt Cyber founding director David Hickton. “The animating vision of PDL is to build local resilience to disinformation right here, right now.”
Dis-, mis- and malinformation have become increasingly problematic in the United States and beyond.
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