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Focus Tag: Disinformation
Evidence of humans, not ‘bots,’ key to uncovering disinformation campaigns | Illinois News Bureau
by Craig Chamberlain
October 29, 2019
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Political disinformation campaigns on social media threaten to sway political outcomes, from U.S. elections to Hong Kong…
Can you believe your eyes? How deepfakes are coming for politics | Financial Times
by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
October 24, 2019
Matteo Renzi, Italy’s former prime minister and founder of the new Italia Viva party, sits in an opulent-looking office, face…
Election Interference
October 22, 2019
Version 1.1 updated with key points, and material from Benkler (2019) and Karpf (2019). Key Points: This review defines "election…
Defining “Disinformation”
October 22, 2019
Version 1.1 updated with key points. Key Points: The academic community has gravitated towards a set of definitions that identifies…
Information Ethics Roundtable 2020 “Scientific Misinformation in the Digital Era”
October 18, 2019
"The Information Ethics Roundtable is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines, including but not…
Investigating Information Operations in West Papua: A Digital Forensic Case Study of Cross-Platform Network Analysis | bellingcat
by Benjamin Strick
October 17, 2019
A new open source investigation has analysed a well-funded and co-ordinated social media campaign aimed at distorting the truth about…
Carole McGranahan
October 16, 2019
I am an anthropologist and historian specializing in contemporary Tibet and the USA. My research focuses on issues of colonialism…
At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
September 26, 2019
In Vietnam, citizens were enlisted to post pro-government messages on their personal Facebook pages. The Guatemalan government used hacked and…
Google’s Knowledge Panels Are Magnifying Disinformation | The Atlantic
by Lora Kelly
September 23, 2019
In August, a Google search for the Charlottesville, Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally rendered a knowledge panel reading, “Unite the…