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Misinformation Amplification Analysis and Tracking Dashboard | Integrity Institute
by Integrity Institute
October 28, 2022
Tracking how social media platforms respond to misinformation is crucial to understanding the risks and dangers that platforms can pose…
Brazilian Official Granted Power to Order Removal of Misinformation Online | The New York Times
by Jack Nicas
October 28, 2022
Brazilian authorities, grappling with a torrent of online misinformation ahead of the country’s presidential election, granted the nation’s elections chief…
Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
by Victoria Smith, Jon Bateman, and Dean Jackson
October 28, 2022
As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have…
What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
South-to-South Learning Spaces vs Disinformation | DigiLabour
by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Rafael Grohmann
October 19, 2022
Global South disinformation advocacies too often tend to replicate certain Euro-American frames of platform and technological determinism where Facebook, Russian…
Power, Platforms and Politics: Asian Americans and Disinformation | Asian American Disinformation Table
by Asian American Disinformation Table
October 17, 2022
This report offers a preliminary landscape analysis of mis- and disinformation within and about Asian/Asian American diasporic communities with the…
Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms | The New York Times
by Tiffany Hsu
October 13, 2022
Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020. That is happening…
Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers | NBC News
by Kevin Collier
September 15, 2022
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out…
Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell
by Catherine Weddig
September 15, 2022
Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to…