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  • Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps | HKS Misinformation Review

    May 17, 2023

    The 2022 elections in Brazil have demonstrated that disinformation can have violent consequences, particularly when it comes from the top, raising concerns around democratic backsliding. This study leverages a two-wave […]

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  • There Is No Getting Ahead of Disinformation Without Moving Past It | Lawfare

    May 9, 2023

    I don’t believe in disinformation. And it’s time for democracies to stop focusing on it. I’m not saying there’s no such thing or that it’s not bad. I’m saying something […]

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  • “They’re Coming to Take over Our Country”: Researching Global Circuits of Racist Misinformation

    April 17, 2023

    Abstract “The others are coming. They are coming to get us, take over our country, colonize us, and replace us. They’re an existential threat.” These types of racist logics are […]

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  • Gendered Disinformation: Tactics, Themes, and Trends by Foreign Malign Actors | United States Department of State

    April 6, 2023

    Gendered disinformation  is a subset of misogynistic abuse and violence against women that uses false or misleading gender and sex-based narratives, often with some degree of coordination, to deter women from […]

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  • Twitter’s plan to charge researchers for data access puts it in EU crosshairs | POLITICO

    March 30, 2023

    Elon Musk pledged Twitter would abide by Europe’s new content rules — but Yevgeniy Golovchenko is not so convinced. The Ukrainian academic, an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, […]

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  • Jim Jordan Issues Information Requests to Universities Researching Disinformation | ProPublica

    March 22, 2023

    House Republicans have sent letters to at least three universities and a think tank requesting a broad range of documents related to what it says are the institutions’ contributions to […]

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  • There’s a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ against Misinformation | Scientific American

    March 16, 2023

    Misinformation can feel inescapable. Last summer a survey from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies found that 62 percent of people regularly notice false or misleading information online. And […]

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  • Digital Policy Rounds: Mis/disinformation and the Question of Authenticity | Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy

    March 14, 2023

    While mis- and dis-information is primarily understood in terms of its facticity, or lack thereof, the very circulation of information such as news stories is tied to the cultural contexts […]

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  • Tech & Democracy report | All Tech Is Human

    March 7, 2023

    All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, […]

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  • Networks of pro-Kremlin Telegram channels spread disinformation at a global scale | DFRLab

    March 2, 2023

    Fifty-six pro-Kremlin Telegram channels divided into three networks of similarly named accounts are spreading pro-Kremlin narratives to users worldwide, including in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. The […]

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