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Many of the stories that pundits, journalists, and scholars tell about disinformation begin with the 2016 US presidential election and focus on the role of social media platforms in spreading […]
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TheĀ Center for an Informed PublicĀ at theĀ University of WashingtonĀ is planning a virtual workshop, āChallenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research,ā on May 6 that will bring together academic teams researching mis- and […]
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As our H2020 project is close to its end-date, we would like to invite you to the event āCountering disinformation: strategies, policies, researchā, that we are organising online, on Wednesday […]
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This special issue is designed to place our contemporary post-truth impasse in historical perspective. Drawing comparisons to the Propaganda Analysis research paradigm of the Interwar years, this essay and issue […]
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The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass-urbanization, surveillance, pandemics, and other emergencies, currently being incubated at the Berkman Klein […]
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Facebook, the election, the insurrection: A conversation with Avaaz’s Fadi Quran | Tech Policy Press
This week Avaaz- a global activist organization that focuses on issues such as democratic values, human rights, and poverty- released a new report: Facebook: From Election to Insurrection: How Facebook […]
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āClosedā messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram have grown in reach and adoption in recent years and have transformed elections-related communications. However, understanding their impact upon larger public […]
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Itās hard to know how many people actually believe the key tenets ofĀ QAnonās claims, including that devil-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles are somehow running the world. Its adherents have caused violence and […]