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Focus Tag: Misinformation
Webinar: Election 2020: Setting Expectations and Debunking Myths
October 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American life in many ways and will certainly also impact the 2020 election. In fact,…
Fake News Site Courier Spends Millions to Boost Vulnerable House Democrats | National Review
by Tobias Hoonhout
October 14, 2020
A for-profit media company funded by major Democratic donors Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs has created hundreds of millions…
“It’s been really, really bad”: How Hispanic voters are being targeted by disinformation | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley
October 14, 2020
The disinformation is “using religion as a pull to distort her record, drawing a real divisiveness between what it means…
WEBINAR: Behind the Decision Desk: Fox News, the AP, CNN, and What To Expect on Election Night | PEN America
October 14, 2020
Join PEN America and decision desk editors at the Associated Press, Fox News, and CNN to discuss election calls, projections,…
COVID Misinformation Is Killing People | Scientific American
by Amir Bagherpour & Ali Nouri
October 14, 2020
The confluence of misinformation and infectious disease isn’t unique to COVID-19. Misinformation contributed to the spread of the Ebola epidemic…
When a Journalist Becomes a Disinformation Agent | Scientific American
by Jen Schwartz
October 14, 2020
I am not the editor in chief of a propaganda farm disguised as a far-right breaking news outlet. But one…
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks | Reuters
by Jack Stubbs & Christopher Bing
October 12, 2020
Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by…
President Trump and social media are super spreaders of misinformation right now, Americans say | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Hanaa' Tameez
October 12, 2020
With just 26 days to go before the United States presidential election — in the middle of a major racial…
Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic | SocInfo
by Gregoire Burel, Tracie Farrell, Martino Mensio, Prashant Khare & Harith Alani
October 7, 2020
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the consequences of misinformation are a matter of life and death. Correcting misconceptions…