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16 votes
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X overtakes WeChat in spreading Chinese disinformation about the 2024 US presidential elections
37 votes -
Laboratories at home and abroad: Russian information operations pre-deployment
9 votes -
China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate
25 votes -
The new propaganda war
25 votes -
Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools (full special)
13 votes -
New study found YouTube's recommendation algorithm boosted right-wing content in the run-up to Finland's 2024 elections
33 votes -
Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections
14 votes -
Analysis: Why is so much anti-Palestinian disinformation coming from India?
20 votes -
Europeans in service of Russian propaganda machine
10 votes -
The latest dangerous conspiracy theory: That conspiracy theory research is part of a big conspiracy
30 votes -
New Jersey requiring students to learn 'media literacy' to fight 'disinformation'
15 votes -
How "Unser Mitteleuropa" is building a network of right-wing media in Europe
5 votes -
No, you’re not ‘just asking questions.’ You’re spreading disinformation.
26 votes -
The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
6 votes -
The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964)
5 votes -
Handbook on countering Russian and Chinese interference in Europe
14 votes -
Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this?
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PSA: Disinformation and the over-representation of false flag events on social media.
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on...
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on these articles especially fan the flames on the subjects of homophobia, racism, and sexism. While the articles themselves are still noteworthy and deserving of attention, the amount of attention that they've been receiving has been disproportionately high (especially when considering how fairly unknown the individuals involved are) and the discourse on those articles particularly divisive.
On top of that, there are clear disinformation campaigns going on to attack current Democratic presidential candidates in the U.S. It seems pretty clear that we're having a repeat of the last presidential election, with outside parties stoking the flames of discrimination and disinformation on social media in order to further ideological divisions, and the consumers of that media readily falling for it.
I would caution readers to be mindful of the shifting representation of historically controversial or contentious topics moving forward. Even if the articles themselves are solidly factual, take note of how frequently you're seeing these articles, whether or not they're known to be contentious topics, and how they're affecting online discourse.
In short: make sure that you can still smell bullshit even when it's dressed up in pretty little facts.
30 votes -
How the UN migration pact got trolled
5 votes -
The Russian "firehose of falsehood" propaganda model - Why it might work and options to counter It
11 votes