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The story that appeared on the Hill website on March 20 was startling. Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine, had given a “list of people whom we should not […]
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An increasingly popular tactic challenges conventional wisdom on the spread of electoral disinformation: the creation of partisan outlets masquerading as local news organizations. An investigation by the Tow Center for […]
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Many of the accounts, which mostly used footage from CNN, but also employed some video from Fox News, exploited a YouTube feature that automatically creates channels on certain topics. Those […]
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Fake videos doctored by artificial intelligence are not just a threat to politicians in 2020. Corporate brands should be on alert for “deepfakes” too, experts are warning. Chief executives including […]
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If we can’t show that propaganda and disinformation have direct, persuasive effects, then why should we care? David Karpf argues that the answer lies in a foundational myth of democracy. Rampant online disinformation threatens to unravel that myth, and with it the fabric of our democratic society.
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Next year’s presidential election will challenge journalists, technology platforms, and researchers with an unprecedented wave of disinformation. Is the press prepared? What is the role of foreign intervention in the […]
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“Fake news, social bots, disinformation, filter bubbles, virality, deep fakes & more! The 2nd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) will take place from April 20-22 […]
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“This conference intendeds to bring together scholars studying conspiracy theories, fake news, and misinformation from across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. The goals of the conference are (1) to gain a […]
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Russia has been testing new disinformation tactics in an enormous Facebook campaign in parts of Africa, as part of an evolution of its manipulation techniques ahead of the 2020 American […]