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MisinfoCon Webinar on Police Misinformation | MisinfoCon & MuckRock
Misinformation and disinformation originating from law enforcement sources, which has lately included Antifa raids, brick piles, poisoned milkshakes and more, has sparked considerable interest in the past few months. But […]
Combatting COVID-19 misinformation with machine learning (VB Live) | VentureBeat
Misinformation around COVID-19 is driving human behavior across the world. Here in the information age, sensationalized clickbait headlines are crowding out actual fact-based content, and, as a result misinformation spreads virally. […]
Fake News and Social Media Disinformation | Northeastern University & World Affairs Council-Seattle
Event Listing Header Northeastern University-Seattle and the World Affairs Council-Seattle co-sponsor a panel discussion featuring media and political experts talking about what’s real and what’s not, and how to reclaim […]
Fighting Election Disinformation with First-Time Voters | PEN America
Join PEN America on Wednesday, September 30 at 6:30pm ET for a live and interactive media literacy workshop that will focus on examples of mis/disinformation targeting first-time voters and helpful […]
Twitter and the infodemic: The Future of Democracy | Knight Foundation
As the nation continues to grapple with the pandemic, we’ve also had to manage a rising “infodemic,” an overabundance of misinformation about COVID-19. Recent Gallup/Knight research shows that a majority […]
Who Votes, Who Doesn’t and Why It Matters | 92Y
A little more than half of eligible voters participated in recent elections which means … close to half did not. Who doesn’t vote and why? Join 92Y for a discussion […]
Networked Dissent: Social Media and Protest Participation | CSMaP Seminar Series
This fall, the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics will bring together leading scholars to explore the relationship between new media technologies and democratic politics. Our virtual CSMaP Seminar […]
Follow the Ad: Uncovering Election Interference behind Data-Driven Digital Platforms | Shorenstein Center
Election interference raises grave normative concerns. Unfortunately, due to conceptual and methodological challenges, little scientific knowledge has been generated about election interference. This talk discusses the mechanisms by which election […]
Media Literacy | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Social media sites have now surpassed cable, network, and local TV as primary sources of political news for one-in-five Americans. Yet the speed and volume of online information, challenges discerning the credibility of online […]