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Focus Tag: Influence
These artists make online disinformation into art. Or is it the other way around? | Washington Post
by Kelsey Ables
June 19, 2020
The verb “to Google” has become almost synonymous with “to know.” How’d you know that the Louvre is 652,300 square feet?…
How the right-wing response to Iran set the stage for 2020’s misinformation campaign | Columbia Journalism Review
by Bob Norman
June 9, 2020
Earlier this year—before the pandemic, before the mass protests across the United States—another crowd gathered, this time in Tehran, Iran.…
Coronavirus and the Spanish flu: A historian reflects on key lessons | Vox
by Sean Illing
April 13, 2020
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s…
Influencers among ‘key distributors’ of coronavirus misinformation | The Guardian
by Jim Waterson
April 8, 2020
Celebrities and politicians with large social media followings are proving to be key distributors of disinformation relating to coronavirus, according…
Mask Misinformation and the Failure of the Elites | Vanity Fair
by T. A. Frank
April 8, 2020
This essay will offer grimness, as if that were avoidable, but end with optimism—because why not? The last thing we…
Does reporting on panic buying fuel panic buying? | Columbia Journalism Review
by Zoë Beery
April 3, 2020
As the coronavirus spreads with unsettling speed across the world, so has press coverage of hoarding. Food. Medical supplies. Toilet…
WhatsApp tests new feature to fight misinformation: Search the web | TechCrunch
by Manish Singh
March 23, 2020
WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging platforms on the planet, is testing a feature that could make it simpler for its…
IRA in Ghana: Double Deceit | Graphika
by Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud, Melanie Smith, Thomas Lederer, Joseph A. Carter, Erin McAweeney.
March 12, 2020
On March 12, 2020, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Graphika, and two professors from Clemson University exposed a cross-platform influence operation on social…
Facebook accuses telecoms groups of disinformation tactics | Financial Times
by Hannah Murphy & John Reed
February 12, 2020
Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia’s biggest telecoms providers used tactics typical of Russian trolls to discredit rivals,…