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Focus Tag: Disinformation Studies
People who engage with false news are hyper-concerned about truth. But they think it’s being hidden | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Tommy Shane
4 days ago
When we think about disinformation, we tend to focus on narratives. 5G causes coronavirus. Bill Gates is trying to depopulate…
Not just politics: Disinformation campaigns hit enterprises, too | Tech Target
by Rob Wright
4 days ago
When it comes to nation-state disinformation campaigns on social media, U.S. elections and political candidates aren't the only targets. Renée…
Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University
August 7, 2020
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading…
Google enables Covid-19 disinformation sites to make money, report finds | Press Gazette
by William Turvill
August 7, 2020
A new University of Oxford report has exposed how Covid-19 disinformation websites are able to use Google’s search engine and…
The difference between the facts and the truth | First Draft
by Tommy Shane
August 5, 2020
When we think about disinformation, we tend to focus on narratives. 5G causes coronavirus. Bill Gates is trying to depopulate…
“Fake News” and Cyber-Propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recentering the Research Agenda
by Admire Mare, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara & Dumusani Moyo
August 4, 2020
Dominant narratives about the contemporary problem of “fake news” and cyber-propaganda have focused on how its evolution and manifestation has…
Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation | The Computational Propaganda Project
by Emily Taylor, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Stacie Hoffmann & Philip N. Howard
August 4, 2020
As people around the world turn towards search engines to access information about COVID-19, it is important to understand why…
Job Opening | Policy Director | Data & Society
by Data & Society
July 20, 2020
Today, we announced a job opening for a brand-new position at Data & Society. We have spent the last six…
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict | Bookshop
by Nina Jankowicz
July 8, 2020
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up…