#Misinformation

Mike Caulfield

holden

So I wrote this end-of-year thing for @NiemanLab, and one thing I didn't put in it was an underlying revelation about terminology, particularly about narratives and claims and how we

Mark Toshner

mark_toshner

I've been tweeting about vaccines for a while now. Next 6 months are crucial in misinformation war so here are a few things I have learned 1/n 1) Vaccine hesitancy

John Cook

johnfocook

I've added a third trait of conspiratorial thinking to the @crankyuncles game: Nefarious intent. A red flag of a baseless conspiracy theory are evil villains, whether it be scheming scientists,

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

Here's an unintended consequence from Facebook's independent Oversight Board: Does it make Facebook's judgment look good by comparison?1/https://www.oversightboard.com/news/165523235084273-announcing-the-oversight-board-s-first-

Hamza Shaban

hshaban

A senior engineer collected internal evidence that showed Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content.Facebook fired that engineer yesterday, BuzzFeed

Imran Khan

imrankhan

What if the way we think about fixing #misinformation is wrong? My team at @wellcometrust's has done some work with @shift_org.A thread on how we should look at the conditions

tattle

tattlemade

Deepfakes, Cheap Fakes and Misinformation in India- A Thread (1/n)Tattle's archive service captured a 19 second video clip from a chat app. The video showed 9 notable figures singing a

Jesse Miller

MediatedReality

People are gullible. A thread. 1. Communist USSR fueled Operation INFEKTION, a disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 80s, it was the idea that the United States had

Catch Wrestling U - #BlackLivesMatter #SpeakingOut

CatchWrestling

People forget Anderson Silva shouted words to the effect of "Where's your Jiu Jitsu now, playboy?" to Demian Maia in their title fight.This spoke to the big economic class divide

Lea Kissner

LeaKissner

Last talk about Securing Democracy at #enigma2021: @jackhcable speaking about "THE FULL STACK PROBLEM OF ELECTION SECURITY"https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/cable Let's imagine that elections use all th

Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC

MattNegrin

Meet the Press has booked a shameless conspiracy theorist, Senator Ron Johnson, for Sunday. Johnson says covid is fake and denied Biden won the election. He is MTP's most-booked Republican

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

Thought-provoking piece today from @GeorgeMonbiot on how our right to free speech & our right to life collide when influential pundits spread Covid lies. We regulate speech around other health

Bartley Kives

bkives

Well, it’s happened to me, folks: I have someone in my life who’s fallen victim to the lure of conspiracy theories. COVID, the U.S. election (yes, even after Jan. 6)

Mx. Dianna E. Anderson

diannaeanderson

HEY FRIENDS:Some Twitter rules to follow tomorrow:- Do not Retweet without verification. Just because it's blowing up on Twitter doesn't mean it's real.- There are going to be a ton

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On to my more contentious of the night.“It’s very funny that everyone is worrying about preprints given that, collectively, journals are not doing a great job of keeping misinformation

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

I see Thalidomide is trending.It's never been more obvious that many if not most of the accounts liking & amplifying controversial views & disinformation are accounts that have either been

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