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Focus Tag: Disinformation Studies
Engendering Hate: The contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online | Demos
by Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Asli Atay, Ellen Judson, Josh Smith & Rose Lasko-Skinner
2 days ago
Our report, with U.S.-based National Democratic Institute (NDI), outlines a new framework for understanding how disinformation is being used online…
Organizing Online Foreign Influence Efforts: Lessons from Topic Models and Content-Based Detection | Shorenstein Center
2 days ago
Since 2014 there have been at least 74 nation-state led online influence campaigns targeting other countries through deceptive social media,…
The Psychology of Fact Checking | Scientific American
by Jonathan O'Callaghan
2 days ago
Distortions and outright lies by politicians and pundits have become so common that major news outlets like the Associated Press,…
Podcast: How to report on hacks and disinformation | Brookings
by Janine Zacharia, Andrew Grotto, Quinta Jurecic, & Alina Polyakova
3 days ago
Journalists face a tough dilemma when reporting on hacked documents. Authentic documents obtained by illicit means and leaked to the…
Randomized control trial finds IREX’s media literacy messages to be effective in reducing engagement with disinformation | IREX
by Katya Vogt
6 days ago
The Kremlin sponsored an aggressive propaganda campaign using social media to influence the 2016 U.S. elections. In an effort to…
Butterfly Attack: The Origins of Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Erin Gallagher
October 21, 2020
Throughout 2017, pranksters and extremists utilized parody accounts to discredit the antifascist movement in the US, taking advantage of available…
Investigative Digital Ethnography: Methods for Environmental Modeling | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brian Friedberg
October 21, 2020
Investigative Digital Ethnography combines elements of investigative journalism with ethnographic observation in a practice useful for academic researchers, policy makers,…
Trolling for Truth on Social Media | Scientific American
by Joan Donovan
October 16, 2020
During the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets with…
Disinformation Around Trump’s Health ‘Very Concerning’ Ahead Of Election | NPR
by Michel Martin
October 6, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with two scholars — Arie Perliger and Nina Jankowicz — about how Trump's questioning of mail-in…