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Focus Tag: Disinformation
The Post-pandemic Future of Trust in Digital Governance | Centre for International Governance Innovation
by Teresa Scassa
1 day ago
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, “trust” was a key concept for governments as they asked citizens to make a…
Why we need a Google Trends for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Reddit | First Draft
by Tommy Shane
3 days ago
Everyone needs access to credible information during a pandemic. Without it, people die. We are especially vulnerable when we want…
Trends in Online Foreign Influence Efforts | Empirical Studies of Conflict
by Diego A. Martin, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Julia Ilhardt
4 days ago
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) create novel opportunities for a wide range of political actors. Foreign governments have used social…
Ron Wyden, Section 230, and the fight to hold Big Tech accountable | Vox
by Sara Morrison
August 7, 2020
Sen. Ron Wyden is ready to send the CEO of Facebook to prison, and he has the bill to do…
WhatsApp Hopes its Misinformation-Busting Feature Will Help Democracy | Red Herring
by Red Herring
August 6, 2020
Social media platform WhatsApp has launched a new feature it hopes will make discourse more truthful. “Search the web” allows…
The difference between the facts and the truth | First Draft
by Tommy Shane
August 5, 2020
When we think about disinformation, we tend to focus on narratives. 5G causes coronavirus. Bill Gates is trying to depopulate…
Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation | The Computational Propaganda Project
by Emily Taylor, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Stacie Hoffmann & Philip N. Howard
August 4, 2020
As people around the world turn towards search engines to access information about COVID-19, it is important to understand why…
The Disinfomercial: How Larry King Got Duped Into Starring in Chinese Propaganda | ProPublica
by Renee Dudley & Jeff Kao
August 3, 2020
Jacobi Niv had paid Larry King a few thousand dollars apiece to narrate half a dozen videos for companies or…
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories | WIRED
by Andy Greenberg
July 31, 2020
Over the past few years, online disinformation has taken evolutionary leaps forward, with the Internet Research Agency pumping out artificial…