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  • Elon Musk’s Twitter Is a Disaster for Disaster Planning | The Atlantic

    March 2, 2023

    For years, Twitter was at its best when bad things happened. Before Elon Musk bought it last fall, before it was overrun with scammy ads, before it amplified fake personas, […]

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  • Call for Proposals | European Media and Information Fund

    February 13, 2023

    The European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) opened three calls for proposals for projects in Europe aiming to fight disinformation on 27 January 2023. EMIF will distribute up to €4,800,000 […]

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  • Yunkang Yang

    February 8, 2023

    Dr. Yunkang Yang is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University. He received his doctorate in communication from the Department of Communication at […]

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  • Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times

    October 13, 2022

    Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening again in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections, researchers […]

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  • Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM)

    September 20, 2022

    After three successful editions, the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) returns for a 4th edition, this time hosted as a fully virtual conference by Boise State University […]

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  • Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell

    September 15, 2022

    Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to shape domestic climate science, policy, and communications. This literature review […]

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  • Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor Of Organizational Communication | University of Kentucky

    September 13, 2022

    The Department of Communication in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-eligible (also known as tenure-track) position at the Assistant Professor […]

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  • Curd Knüpfer

    September 6, 2022

    I am an assistant professor (Junior professor) of political science with a focus on political communication and the US media system, working at the Freie Universität Berlin. My main research […]

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  • Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme | ProPublica

    September 6, 2022

    To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram, Dr. Martin Jugenburg is Real Dr. 6ix, a well-coiffed Toronto plastic surgeon posting images and video of his work sculpting the decolletage, […]

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  • CDCS Book Talk: Asta Zelenkauskaitė, Drexel University

    August 26, 2022

    With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity,Creating Chaos Online, unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic […]

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