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Focus Tag: Disinformation Studies
What will 2022 bring in the way of misinformation on social media? 3 experts weigh in. | The Conversation
by Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim, and Ethan Zuckerman
December 28, 2021
At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the…
‘Mission impossible?’: Tracking political misinformation and disinformation on TikTok | The Conversation
by Nuurrianti Jalli
December 22, 2021
TikTok is one of the top five social media platforms in the world this year. In Southeast Asia last year,…
Putin and Xi’s evolving disinformation playbooks pose new threats | TechCrunch
by Jessica Brandt
December 21, 2021
As the information domain becomes an increasingly active and consequential realm of state competition, two countries have gone all in.…
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’ | Columbia Journalism Review
by Richard J. Tofel
December 21, 2021
It’s become both fashionable and unsatisfying to worry about disinformation and misinformation. Fashionable because the stuff seems to be proliferating,…
Fake news and fact-checking: Study examines social media use during the pandemic | Phys.org
by Nottingham Trent University
December 17, 2021
Social media was used to both spread misinformation and for fact-checking during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to…
True Costs of Misinformation Workshop | Harvard Shorenstein Center
December 14, 2021
What are the financial, social, and human costs of misinformation? What is the price that businesses, hospitals, civil society groups,…
Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists. | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Will Oremus, Craig Timberg and Nitasha Tiku
December 14, 2021
Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces, its new live audio chat feature, some employees asked how…
Democrats Warn Texas is Next Target for Disinformation Aimed at Latinos | Newsweek
by Adrian Carrasquillo
December 9, 2021
In a race viewed as uphill by Texas political strategists, Beto O'Rourke's most powerful opponent may not be Governor Abbott,…
Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in Kenya | Global Disinformation Index and Code for Africa
by Robin Kiplangat and Naomi Wanjiku
December 8, 2021
Since the news business has expanded to the online world, transformations in news production and distribution have exposed the industry…