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Focus Tag: Disinformation Studies
Wikipedia turns 20: Fighting disinformation on the world’s encyclopedia | The Washington Post
by Heather Kelly
19 hours ago
Wikipedia is a thing that shouldn’t work, but somehow does. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers, without pay, collectively trying to…
‘Hashtags come to life’: How online extremists fueled Wednesday’s Capitol Hill insurrection | POLITICO
by Tina Nguyen & Mark Scott
January 11, 2021
No one was safe from their anger. White nationalist Proud Boys users on Telegram called the U.S. Capitol Police "f---ing…
The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy | Bellingcat
by The Q Origins Project
January 11, 2021
On January 6, chaos descended on Washington D.C. as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol Building.…
The Bigger Threat Was Always Domestic | The Atlantic
by Emerson T. Brooking & Jacob Shapiro
January 11, 2021
Exaggerating the threat of foreign disinformation made the problem harder to address. As the information scholars Alexei Abrahams and Gabrielle…
We Just Witnessed the Dangers of the Autocratic Disinformation Playbook | Union of Concerned Scientists
by Genna Reed
January 11, 2021
Even with all the warning signs that something like this could happen, there was nothing that could have mentally prepared…
Facts won’t fix this: experts on how to fight America’s disinformation crisis | The Guardian
by Lois Beckett
January 4, 2021
At the beginning of 2021, millions of Americans appear to disagree about one of the most basic facts of their…
Job Opportunity: Assistant Teaching Professor, Computational Social Science | UC San Diego
by UC San Diego
December 14, 2020
The Division of Social Sciences invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position in Computational Social Science, with a start…
Covid: ‘How a picture of my foot became anti-vaccine propaganda’ | BBC News
by Marianna Spring
December 9, 2020
The picture showed purple and red sores, swollen and oozing with pus. "Supposedly this is a [vaccine] trial participant," read…
In 2021, it’s time to refocus on health and science misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Diara J. Townes & Claire Wardle
December 8, 2020
Since 2016, the “field of misinformation” has been disproportionately focused on political disinformation, with emphases on both Facebook and Twitter.…