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Navigating the Noise: Election Coverage in the Digital Age | Center for Brooklyn History
October 5, 2020
Join BHS and the Social Science Research Council for a discussion about fundamental changes to the news industry that are…
How Misinformation Spreads
July 30, 2020
Introduction Among the most worrisome aspects of disinformation and misinformation in the digital age are the number of people they…
Vaccine Mis- and Disinformation
July 23, 2020
Introduction This research review addresses and expands on a critical case study at the intersection of information disorder and scientific…
Misinformation, Crisis, and Public Health—Reviewing the Literature
June 25, 2020
Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic comes at a time when we were already grappling with information overload and pervasive misinformation. In…
Deconstructing the Disinformation War
June 1, 2020
The tropes and metaphors of disinformation It is a good time to be in the disinformation and misinformation business. Whether…
Hate Speech, Information Disorder, and Conflict
April 7, 2020
The following is a condensed and edited version of a research review that the SSRC commissioned for its Academic Network…
Producers of Disinformation – Version 1.2
January 22, 2020
V1.2 includes update on 2020 US election. Disinformation and the 2020 US Election Though we can trace problems of…
On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths
December 10, 2019
What is the sound of a thousand social media bots clapping? For two years, from 2015 to 2017, the Russian…
Cautionary Notes on Disinformation and the Origins of Distrust
October 22, 2019
Anxiety, in perspective Something is profoundly wrong with American democracy when a lead opinion writer, in one of the country’s…