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How Americans Adopted Russia’s Election Disinformation Playbook | The New York Times
by Isabelle Niu, Kassie Bracken and Alexandra Eaton
1 day ago
A deluge of misinformation is hitting the U.S. elections, and this time election experts are more worried about it coming…
Who Will Win the 2020 Meme War?
2 days ago
The new viral battlefield Since 2016, a battle has been waged for the soul of social media, with tech companies…
Misinformation in wake of the COVID-19 outbreak: Fueling shortage and misuse of lifesaving drugs in Pakistan | Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
by Furqan Hashmi, Naveel Atif, Usman Rashid Malik, Zineb Riboua, Fahad Saleem, Yusra Habib Khan, Abrar Ahmad & Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi
3 days ago
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),declared a pandemicby the World Health Organization,isspreading worldwide rapidly.1As of 9August 2020, the total death toll had…
False News and Fact-Checking: Information Flows During a Pandemic and Presidential Election | NYU Center for Social Media and Politics: Election Seminar Series
October 16, 2020
Since the 2016 election, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others have struggled to contain the spread of false and misleading information…
Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets | International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
by Nazim Choudhury, Kin Wai Ng, and Adriana Iamnitchi
October 16, 2020
Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are critical concerns for researchers in social…
Beyond (Mis)Representation: Visuals in COVID-19 Misinformation | SAGE Journals
by J. Scott Brennen, Felix M. Simon, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
October 15, 2020
This article provides one of the first analyses of visuals in misinformation concerning COVID-19. A mixed-methods analysis of ninety-six examples…
New Study by Digital New Deal Finds Engagement with Deceptive Outlets Higher on Facebook Today Than Run-up to 2016 Election | The German Marshall Fund
by Karen Kornbluh, Adrienne Goldstein, and Eli Weiner
October 13, 2020
Four years ago, the country was learning about disinformation and the impact it can have on U.S. (and world) elections.…
Podcast: Yochai Benkler on mass-media disinformation campaigns | Brookings
by Yochai Benkler, Quinta Jurecic, & Evelyn Douek
October 13, 2020
Yochai Benkler, is a professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.…
Trump doesn’t need Russian trolls to spread disinformation. The mainstream media does it for him. | The Washington Post
by Margaret Sullivan
October 9, 2020
Voting fraud, according to study after study, is rare. Mail-in ballots are, with a few exceptions, a safe way to vote.…