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What Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 Case Tells Us About Trump’s | The Atlantic
by Christian Paz
October 6, 2020
They’ve both resisted social distancing, lashed out against lockdowns, and compared the coronavirus to the flu. They’ve each played down…
Project Veritas #BallotHarvesting Amplification | Election Integrity Partnership
by Isabella Garcia-Camargo, Alex Stamos, Elena Cryst, Joe Bak-Coleman, Kate Starbird & Joey Schafer
October 2, 2020
On Sunday night, a right-wing activist group, Project Veritas, released a video alleging illegal ballot harvesting in Minnesota. The video…
When politicians use hate speech, political violence increases | The Conversation
by James Piazza
October 1, 2020
Politicians deepen existing divides when they use inflammatory language, such as hate speech, and this makes their societies more likely…
Trump’s dangerous U.S. TikTok ban | Tech Target
by Patrick Thibodeau
September 22, 2020
As a baby boomer, I'm not TikTok's target audience. I downloaded the app for a work project some time ago.…
Covid Is Accelerating a Global Censorship Crisis | WIRED
by Justin Sherman
September 1, 2020
More than 180,000 people in the United States have now died from the coronavirus, a horrifying loss of human life…
Vaccine nationalism: How geopolitics is shaping responses to the pandemic | First Draft
by Author on Source
August 18, 2020
On August 11, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a vaccine for the coronavirus was “ready”, Kremlin…
The threat to vote by mail isn’t fraud. It’s disinformation and sabotage | CNET
by Alfred Ng
August 18, 2020
Millions of Americans have voted by mail securely for more than 150 years, with fraud historically being so rare that…
“Enduring Information Vigilance: Government after COVID-19” | The US War College Quarterly
by Nina Jankowicz & Henry Collis
August 17, 2020
ABSTRACT: The framework of Enduring Information Vigilance will help ally and partner governments deny advantages adversaries gain through their use…
The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation During the Pandemic | Shorenstein Center
August 12, 2020
The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation during the Pandemic, the second workshop in the series, will feature…