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6 votes
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A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube
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Opinion - journalism needs to lose its dependent relationship with big tech companies
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"Birds Aren't Real" leader TED talk about his movement | Peter McIndoe
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Analysis: Why is so much anti-Palestinian disinformation coming from India?
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EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook
34 votes -
Lies fuel racism ahead of Australia's Indigenous vote
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A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation
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Europeans in service of Russian propaganda machine
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
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Kids and families: the latest targets of climate denialism propaganda
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A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers...
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Google-owned YouTube makes millions from channels pushing climate disinformation: Analysis
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A one-of-a-kind bat research facility coming to Fort Collins has CSU scientists fighting misinformation
8 votes -
False posts about French riots spread online
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The latest dangerous conspiracy theory: That conspiracy theory research is part of a big conspiracy
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‘Don’t Look Up’ director Adam McKay wants to win the climate information war — with memes
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Twitter restricted in Türkiye in aftermath of earthquake
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New Jersey requiring students to learn 'media literacy' to fight 'disinformation'
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Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
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How "Unser Mitteleuropa" is building a network of right-wing media in Europe
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‘Pre-bunking’ online misinformation
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Two-thirds of anti-vax propaganda online created by just twelve influencers, research finds
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Sweden, which is holding a general election in September, has joined France in creating an agency to combat disinformation
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Scientists: Don't feed the doubt machine
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Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation”
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No, you’re not ‘just asking questions.’ You’re spreading disinformation.
26 votes -
EEAS special report update: Short assessment of narratives and disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic
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China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
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What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.
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How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets
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Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
30 votes -
The problem of free speech in an age of disinformation
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks
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Fake news (part 1/3): Origins and evolution
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The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level
9 votes -
What the internet could be
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What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out
16 votes -
An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online
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Inside corporations’ war on science
9 votes -
US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
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Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots
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The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
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The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964)
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The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous. But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping
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How the ‘1984’ scenario failed in Moscow
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How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it)
9 votes -
EU warns of pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on coronavirus
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What do we actually know about modern disinformation?
This is an intentionally broad question with a lot of different angles. It's also a question that's naturally hard to get solid grounding on now that nearly everything gets painted as false,...
This is an intentionally broad question with a lot of different angles. It's also a question that's naturally hard to get solid grounding on now that nearly everything gets painted as false, misleading, or disingenuous by at least someone.
Normally in my ask threads I throw out a lot of potential talking points, but in this case I want to leave the question open, for people to take it in whichever direction they wish: What do we actually know about modern disinformation, especially related to (but not limited to) online spaces? What are some real, genuine takeaways we can hang our hats on?
Also, a point of clarity: disinformation here does NOT strictly refer to high-level government propaganda and can include something as low-level as, say, an influencer not disclosing product sponsorship to their followers. I'm interested in distributed falsehoods of any caliber.
21 votes