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Google Maps Live Traffic Showed the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Motherboard
by Aaron Gordon and Matthew gault
February 24, 2022
At 3:15 AM local time, Jeffrey Lewis, an open source intelligence (OSINT) expert and professor at Middlebury Institute, saw a…
The Poynter Institute’s MediaWise announces international expansion of digital media literacy program to address global information disorder | Poynter
by Sara Bealor
December 14, 2021
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Dec. 13, 2021) – When the Poynter Institute launched its digital media literacy initiative MediaWise in 2018, the…
The Covid vaccine map looks a lot like the election map | CNNPolitics
by Zachary B. Wolf
December 8, 2021
Americans have a common enemy in Covid-19. Cases and hospitalizations are once again rising around the country. But the nation's…
Disinformation is spreading beyond the realm of spycraft to become a shady industry – lessons from South Korea | The Conversation
by K. Hazel Kwon
November 16, 2021
Disinformation, the practice of blending real and fake information with the goal of duping a government or influencing public opinion,…
How Misinformation Threatened a Montana National Heritage Area | The New York Times
by Reid J. Epstein
October 26, 2021
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — In the summer of 2020, as pandemic shutdowns closed businesses and racial justice protests erupted on…
Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa | Africa Center for Strategic Studies
by Africa Center for Strategic Studies
October 7, 2021
From Asmara to Abuja, Sudan to South Africa, digital disinformation is becoming an increasingly common feature of Africa’s domestic political…
Local news and media capture: a Q&A with Phil Napoli | Columbia Journalism Review
by Anya Schiffrin and Lauren Harris
September 30, 2021
For many years, the term “media capture” was used primarily by economists and political scientists who wanted to understand societies…
Afghanistan Has Its Own Fake News Problem | Deadline
by Hollie McKay
September 23, 2021
A month into the Taliban takeover of Kabul, and the misinformation and disinformation continues to soar into dizzying territory –…
How Hope, Fear and Misinformation Led Thousands of Haitians to the U.S. Border | The New York Times
by James Dobbins, Natalie Kitroeff, Anatoly Kurmanaev, Edgar Sandoval and Miriam Jordan
September 21, 2021
DEL RIO, Texas — They have arrived this week by the thousands, Haitians who had heard of an easy way…