#Disinformation

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

For those trying to understand the political opportunities for misinformation on an election day, zoom in on swing states & look closely at content that ascribes malicious motives to what

Ben Collins

oneunderscore__

Both @BrandyZadrozny and I asked at the time if Facebook’s groups recommendations algorithm would check for radicalization and feeder systems into extremist groups.This was exactly how Youtube was turning gamers

Ben Nimmo

benimmo

Great report by @satariano on a fake network that @Graphika_NYC (and others) found in December. Twitter accounts with GAN faces, boosting Huawei, boosted by Huawei execs, and attacking Belgium's 5G

Jon Allsop

Jon_Allsop

THREAD: Trump's win in 2016 occasioned much media introspection. This year, we've seen a bit of that, but also a lot of back-patting. For @CJR today, I outline why I

Chris Krebs

C_C_Krebs

In the Summer of '19 @mastersonmv and the @CISAgov elections team started the #WarOnPineapple to raise awareness about how #disinfo campaigns work. Step 5, "Taking the Conversation into the Real

Sleeping Giants

slpng_giants

Quick thread: There are a lot of people talking about how to deal with the racism and disinformation on Fox today. A few things:1) Yes, it’s legal for them to

Nikola Casule

NikolaCasule

With @CraigKellyMP in the news for spreading disinformation about #COVID19 vaccines, it's worth remembering that he is just one small player in a global disinformation and conspiracist community (THREAD 1/6)#auspol

Respectable Lawyer

RespectableLaw

A fascinating thread showing how Andy Ngo's website relied on a rich QAnon disinformation agent to falsely smear an innocent murdered protestor and ultimately get retweeted by the president.https://twitter.com/F12_Antifascist/status/128

Nancy Levine

nancylevine

1/ Steve Bannon went to Rupert Murdoch's Sky News Australia to plant #disinformation about Hunter Biden.NY Times last year: "Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and

Michelle Cohen, MD

DocMCohen

Canada may have closed its physical border to the growing American disaster, but in the online world, disinformation is borderless and flowing freely. Allow me to demonstrate: Politics & Dysinfo

Matt Walsh

MattWalshBlog

People comparing this to the famous hot coffee lawsuit against McDonald's. That lawsuit was justified. McDonald's was serving near-boiling coffee and knew it was unsafe. The woman who sued was

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

If there is ANYTHING that should be learned from 2016, it’s that you can’t make preemptive outcome-based decisions about protecting national security, because that decision itself affects the outcome! (See,

Megan Baynes

megbaynes

The UK has become the first country to roll out a Covid vaccine, but disinformation about it continues to be rife on social mediaSo @PA has looked for the truth

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highimpactsex

while it's good that people are calling out jp creators for supporting conspiracy theories and the such in relation to the attempted coup in the usa a while ago, i'd

Tees Valley Monitor

TeesVMonitor

“Teesside is taking off!”In the week that Ben Houchen announces the return of Loganair flights from Teesside Airport and celebrates its success, we wonder, ‘Is he serious’? It was Trump

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

Interesting read about how those who questioned election results in 2000 (when Bush won by 537 votes > a machine deleted 16K Gore votes & Rs blocked the recount) &

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