News Item Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified | HKS Misinformation Review By Richard Rogers on October 26, 2020 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item How Americans Adopted Russia’s Election Disinformation Playbook | The New York Times By Isabelle Niu, Kassie Bracken and Alexandra Eaton on October 25, 2020
Who Will Win the 2020 Meme War? By Joan Donovan on October 27, 2020 Infrastructures and Methodologies
News Item 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 on October 25, 2020
Event 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 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item 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 on October 11, 2020 Algorithms and Automation Targeted Disinformation
News Item Beyond (Mis)Representation: Visuals in COVID-19 Misinformation | SAGE Journals By J. Scott Brennen, Felix M. Simon, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on October 10, 2020
News Item 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 on October 12, 2020
News Item Podcast: Yochai Benkler on mass-media disinformation campaigns | Brookings By Yochai Benkler, Quinta Jurecic, & Evelyn Douek on October 9, 2020
News Item Trump doesn’t need Russian trolls to spread disinformation. The mainstream media does it for him. | The Washington Post By Margaret Sullivan on October 7, 2020 Targeted Disinformation
