News Item Spotting hoaxes: how young people in Africa use cues to spot misinformation online | The Conversation By Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Dani Madrid-Morales, Emeka Umejei, Etse Sikanku, Gregory Gondwe, Herman Wasserman, Khulekani Ndlovu, and Melissa Tully on May 25, 2021
News Item GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers | WIRED By Will Knight on May 24, 2021 Algorithms and Automation
News Item TikTok takes down hundreds of Australian videos in misinformation crackdown | The Guardian By Josh Taylor on May 22, 2021 Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance
News Item Misinformation and Human Trafficking | Atascadero News By Counter Human Trafficking Task Force Board on May 23, 2021
News Item This Clever Game ‘Microdoses’ People With The Manipulation Used to Spread Fake Facts | Science Alert By Clare Watson on May 22, 2021
News Item Workshop Opportunity: Beyond Misinformation: Towards a Research Agenda for Information Ecosystems, Network Dynamics and Emergent Epistemologies| C4 lab By C4 Lab on May 16, 2021
Event Beyond Misinformation: Towards a Research Agenda for Information Ecosystems, Network Dynamics and Emergent Epistemologies | C4 lab August 5, 2021 – August 6, 2021
News Item Disinformation watch: How a Bulletin story about self-spreading vaccines was used in anti-vaxxer propaganda | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Matt Field on May 17, 2021
News Item Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online | HKS Misinformation Review By Ziv Epstein, Adam J. Berinsky, Rocky Cole, Andrew Gully, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand on May 18, 2021 Credibility and Trust
News Item How journalists can avoid amplifying misinformation in their stories | Nieman Journalism Lab By Tommy Shane on May 14, 2021