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  • The Great Moon Hoax: The Birth of Fake News? | Interesting Engineering

    June 15, 2021

    In 1835, The Great Moon Hoax convinced people around the world that the Moon wasn’t a barren wasteland but actually a rich landscape full of ruby caverns and towering amethyst crystals, […]

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  • The Fake History of the Filibuster Won’t Die | New York Magazine

    June 4, 2021

    Advocates of the Senate filibuster can be proud of one thing. They have successfully carried out an extraordinarily effective propaganda campaign. They have convinced much of the country — and, […]

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  • South Korea’s elderly alt-right unite on YouTube | Rest of World

    May 28, 2021

    On the afternoon of the March 1 Independence Day, 85-year-old Jeong Nam-yeon marched for over an hour in the piercing wind and rain to sing the Korean national anthem in […]

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  • U.S. Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here’s How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It | NPR

    May 6, 2021

    The mass inoculation of millions of American children against polio in 1955, like the vaccinations of millions of American adults against COVID-19 in 2021, was a triumph of science. But […]

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  • Unseeing propaganda: How communication scholars learned to love commercial media | HKS Misinformation Review

    April 22, 2021

    In the communication field’s earliest days, scholars devoted much attention to systemic problems, including propaganda-related issues. But curiously, a renewed focus on misinformation notwithstanding, even the general area of propaganda […]

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  • AI and Human Rights Forum | Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies

    April 21, 2021

    From surveillance and misinformation to facial recognition and foreign influence, advances in Artificial Intelligence have been rapid, raising questions about potential and impact on the rights of people around the […]

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  • Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques | HKS Misinformation Review

    April 16, 2021

    Propaganda has a history and so does research on it. In other words, the mechanisms and methods through which media scholars have sought to understand propaganda—or misinformation, or disinformation, or […]

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  • Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets” | Knight First Amendment Institute

    April 15, 2021

    As denazification and reconstruction efforts ramped up across Germany in the wake of World War II, Germans and occupying Allied forces found themselves struggling with difficult questions around censorship and […]

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  • How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today

    April 9, 2021

    As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the shots being put into people’s arms across the state: Black […]

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  • Propaganda, obviously: How propaganda analysis fixates on the hidden and misses the conspicuous | HKS Misinformation Review

    April 8, 2021

    Propaganda analysis has long focused on revealing the rhetorical tricks and hidden special interests behind persuasion campaigns. But what are critics to do when propaganda is obvious? In the late […]

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