#Disinformation

Nora Loreto

NoLore

Took a tour around some key word searches at various news organizations today to see how they manufactured consent related to covid. Here is what I found: At CBC newsThere

Jeff Jarvis

jeffjarvis

There are two interpretations of Facebook pulling news out of News Feed in Australia. The positive one is that Facebook stood on principle, defended the net and refused to be

Ryan Meili

ryanmeili

I want to tell you a story about the Sask Party’s first week back at the Legislature. We met for four days, and in those four days, they said four

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

If you see a social media post asking you to share a message and it explicitly asks you not to use the retweet (Twitter) or share (Facebook) functions but instead

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

ENBrown

Backpage was seized & its owners arrested BEFORE FOSTA became law, and @WIRED & @GiladEdelman need to issue a correction The reason this matters is because members of Congress LIED

Nipun Chopra, PhD

NipunChopra7

Speaking of history, during Marcus Aurelius' reign, the Roman empire experienced The Plague of Antonine (now believed to be SmallPox). Marcus Aurelius had to fight against rampant misinformation campaigns. Specifically

Kyle Whitmire

WarOnDumb

Not a surprise, but Alabama has yet to reckon with what it's losing soon. Nearly everything in this state depends on federal $$$. Shelby could bring it home like few

Joey Schafer

Joey__Schafer

So @EFF released a series of tech policy recommendations to the incoming Biden administration. Most of the principles seem good, but the one I know the most about, namely disinformation,

John Jackson 桜の侍

johnjhacking

1/Anonymous, a thread: When I first learned about #Anonymous as a Freshman in Highschool, I always dreamed about being part of it. As a poor kid, I was unliked, I

Anand Sharma

AnandSharmaINC

Congress led India's freedom movement and is one of the oldest political parties of the world. Questioning its patriotism is outrageous. Time to set the record straight and expose the

Rosamund Urwin

RosamundUrwin

Sorry to weigh in on media studies, but assume those who study it (on top of being aware of disinformation etc) will be more likely to know:- Reporters/columnists don't write

Mary Anne Franks

ma_franks

Some thoughts on Senator @JohnCornyn's question during Senate Judiciary #BigTech hearing this morning about why Twitter doesn't apply the Brandeisian principle of "best answer to bad speech is more speech."

L'il Jan On the Prairies✌❤🍁😷

Learning2GetBy

In the age of information we live in, there's NO reason people cannot fact find. We have an abundance of information at our fingertips.READ REPUTABLE SOURCESRESEARCH & FACT FINDUSE REASONING

Eric JN Ellason

SlickRockWeb

Information previously classified, but has now been downgraded by US Officials so they could more freely discuss it, found Russian GRU intelligence officers are spreading disinformation about the #coronavirus pandemic

Dr Sara Hastings-Simon

S_HastingsSimon

Some thoughts on watching this unfold, cost/benefits/outcomes for those involved and the incentive to lie.National Post publishes piece that is outright wrong.Expert provides skillful takedown and absolutely crushes the story.Post

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

"3 million people are estimated not to have official photo ID, with ethnic minorities more at risk". They will "have to contact their council to confirm their ID if they

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