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The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) seeks a Technical Data/Information Specialist for the USAID Georgia Information Integrity Program. The goal of the program is to enhance Georgian efforts […]
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Despite years of added familiarity, social media giants have found no magic bullet to fight disinformation, or âfake news,â since the 2016 U.S. elections. If anything, Americaâs adversaries, including Russia […]
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The other night, midway through watching a clip from âPlandemicâ â a documentary that went viral on social media last week, spreading baseless lies and debunked nonsense about the coronavirus to […]
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On our Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton spoke with Alex Stamos, former chief security officer for Facebook and director of the Stanford Internet Observatory. Stamos recently […]
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The verdict was in, and it was a comforting one: Deepfakes are the âdog that never barked.â So said Keir Giles, a Russia specialist with the Conflict Studies Research Centre […]
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In the beginning, coronavirus denialism was easy. When widespread American deaths were still confined to the rising slopes of epidemiological models, skeptics could dismiss them as alarmist predictions. That included […]
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The ongoing worldwide coronavirus pandemic hasn’t been immune to the problem of rampant disinformationâintentionally misleading information or propaganda. In fact, the European External Action Service of the European Union recently […]
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Writing in The Atlantic late last month, the political scientists Joseph E. Uscinski and Adam M. Enders observed that the coronavirus has created an environment dangerously conducive to conspiracy theories. âWe have […]
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Since Jan. 24, coordinated by the International Fact-Checking Network, more than 100 fact-checkers from 74 countries have been working together in the largest collaborative fact-checking effort ever launched: the CoronaVirusFacts […]
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“The COVID-19 crisis has generated a wave of misinformation that is undermining trust in the media and government institutions. Join us live as Sam Gill speaks with Dr. Safiya Umoja […]