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Focus Tag: Disinformation Studies
What to know about disinformation and how to address it | Stanford News
by Melissa De Witte
April 18, 2022
Over the past decade, the spread of disinformation online has become a problem facing the U.S. and the world. Increasingly,…
Symposium on Disinformation Studies | Swarthmore College
March 28, 2022
A central feature of the Disinformation Studies program is the annual Symposium on Disinformation Studies. The Symposium is a multiday,…
Will the world clean up ‘information pollution’ in 2022? | World Economic Forum
by Alejandro Romero and Jonathan Nelson
March 25, 2022
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the global community has depended on digital media and social media platforms on a tremendous scale,…
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine changed everything, especially the information war | Coda Story
by Author on Source
March 4, 2022
This week, a well known U.K. podcast asked me to be a guest on their show. The interviewer wanted to…
Job Opportunity: PRODEMINFO (Protecting the Democratic Information Space in Europe) at University of Bristol
by University of Bristol
February 24, 2022
PRODEMINFO (https://sks.to/prodeminfo) is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and aims to gain a greater understanding of people’s perception…
These 5 disinformation studies changed the way we think about fake news | Coda Story
by Mariam Kiparoidze
February 22, 2022
Disinformation has become a prominent, even dominant component of every political crisis. Fabricated images, AI bot, and troll farms make…
The dark side of online space disinformation | Science
by Rachel Fritts
February 22, 2022
Theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack spends a lot of time on Twitter. Mack, at North Carolina State University, joined the platform…
Disinformation for profit: scammers cash in on conspiracy theories | The Guardian
by Nick Robins-Early
February 21, 2022
When Facebook removed dozens of groups dedicated to Canada’s anti-government “Freedom Convoy” protests earlier this month, it didn’t do so…
Call for Papers: What Comes After Disinformation Studies? | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)
by Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)
February 2, 2022
The title of this pre-conference, “What Comes After Disinformation Studies?”, is something of a deliberate provocation. With an ongoing increase…