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Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
by Michael Yankoski, Walter Scheirer, and Tim Weninger
5 days ago
Despite several alarming headlines in the press last year like “Deepfakes are coming for American Democracy” (Hwang and Watts 2020),…
A few simple tricks make fake news stories stick in the brain | Science News
by Laura Sanders
May 6, 2021
Bad information isn’t new. Propagandists and scam artists have been selling their brand of proverbial snake oil for ages, all…
Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance | The New Yorker
by Sue Halpern
May 4, 2021
When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’…
Machine-learning project takes aim at disinformation | MIT Technology Review
by MIT Technology Review Insights
May 4, 2021
There’s nothing new about conspiracy theories, disinformation, and untruths in politics. What is new is how quickly malicious actors can…
Cybersecurity in 2021 and Beyond: The Aftermath of the SolarWinds Attack | Georgetown University
May 3, 2021
In December 2020, it was first reported that SolarWinds, a major US information technology firm, experienced a massive cyberattack which…
EU warns of disinformation campaign linked to Russia’s Sputnik vaccine | POLITICO
by Carlo Martuscelli
April 30, 2021
Moscow is waging a concerted media campaign to promote its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and denigrate rivals, the EU's diplomatic…
Recommended Reading: Amazon’s algorithms, conspiracy theories and extremist literature | Institute for Strategic Dialogue
by Elise Thomas
April 30, 2021
The role of algorithms in propelling conspiracy theories and radicalisation has been brought into sharp focus by the interlocking crises…
Lessons from the pandemic’s superstar data scientist, Youyang Gu | MIT Technology Review
by Siobhan Roberts
April 28, 2021
“It became clear that we’re not going to reach herd immunity in 2021, at least definitely not across the whole…
Research note: Likes, sarcasm and politics: Youth responses to a platform-initiated media literacy campaign on social media | HKS Misinformation Review
by Iona Literat, Abubakr Abdelbagi, Nicola Yl Law, Marcus Y-Y Cheung, Rongwei Tang
April 28, 2021
To better understand youth attitudes towards media literacy education on social media, and the opportunities and challenges inherent in such…