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Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming | The New York Times
by Max Fisher
July 26, 2021
In May, several French and German social media influencers received a strange proposal. A London-based public relations agency wanted to…
Nothing is Free: The Cost to Civil Society of Online Inequity, Disinformation, Hate, and Surveillance | Charlemont Forum
July 21, 2021
Jessica J. González is Co-CEO of Free Press, an organization dedicated to “saving net neutrality, achieving affordable internet access for…
The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive | BBC News
by Kerry Allen and Sophie Williams
July 12, 2021
In recent years, the "vloggers" have been increasingly presenting themselves as China-lovers, spreading Communist Party disinformation. YouTube labels Chinese state…
Big Oil’s lies about climate change—a climate scientist’s take | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
by Adam Sobel
July 12, 2021
The Guardian’s new series of articles on fossil fuel companies’ culpability for the climate crisis is entitled “Climate Crimes.” Is…
Recontextualized Media: Biden “Voter Fraud Organization” | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Emily Dreyfuss
July 7, 2021
In the final two weeks of the 2020 presidential election, Republican operatives spread a recontextualized video of candidate Joe Biden they took out…
Distributed Amplification: The Plandemic Documentary | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Jennifer Nilsen
July 7, 2021
Plandemic, a 26-minute trailer video about coronavirus conspiracy theories, went viral in May 2020 because of distributed amplification. In response…
Evidence Collage: Unite the Right Rally | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brian Friedberg and Joan Donovan
July 7, 2021
In the aftermath of the deadly car attack during the Unite the Right Rally of August 2017, a misidentification of the…
Opinion: Justice Gorsuch is concerned about Internet disinformation. But his solution is backwards. | The Washington Post
by Erik Wemple
July 7, 2021
Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch deplores the level of disinformation being fed to Americans these days. “It seems that…
Global Democracies Need to Align to Fight Disinformation | WIRED
by Samuel Woolley and Miroslava Sawirisira
July 7, 2021
As the US prepares for next year’s midterm elections, and the slew of foreign and domestic online disinformation and propaganda…