#Disinformation

Miriam Brett

MiriamBrett

Failing to combat a moral panic fuelled by disinformation scapegoating transgender people is a failure to protect the rights of a marginalised community. The tipping point should’ve been a long

The End Times

TheAgeofShoddy

One of the most consistent features of twitter, and the world generally now, is how much of the worst behavior comes from people acting under their own names, precisely because

More Perfect Union

MorePerfectUS

NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama.They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic

Alexander Heffner

heffnera

I want to reflect on how societally we can reduce the disinformation-terrorist nexus after publishing today’s new pod w/@QanonAnonymous. (Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2hQidTDtsFocxf9KpJ3gFX.) The first and most important

zedster

z3dster

This thread is on how a graphic designers failure to close a file helped me expose a disinformation networkBack in October Reuters reported on the FBI prob into a Russian

David Atkins

DavidOAtkins

No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

THREADThe Hunter Biden story broke two months ago. Most of the media ignored it or called it “Russian disinformation,” despite no evidence that it was.Now that the election is over,

Dr Tracey Jensen

Drtraceyjensen

"#MediaStudies, what a mickey mouse subject, hur hur hur, amirite"Listen buddy, if you can look at this *gestures wildly* shit-show and not see the enduring relevance of Media Studies as

John Scott-Railton

jsrailton

BREAKING: 'hit list' website doxxing tens of officials & peddling an election grievance narrative is linked to Iran by @FBI Quick THREAD on some interesting features 1/ https://twitter.com/nakashimae/status/1341547312968024071

Ethan Zuckerman

EthanZ

Like Jimmy, I remember the web before section 230. At http://Tripod.com , we were providing homepage hosting services to thousands of users. Like Geocities, our main competitor, our product was free

Sam 💖

hoodcuIture

I think the point people are missing is how both disinformation (not misinformation), as well as medical racism are killing Black people. I know a lot of people are saying

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

This piece does not recognize how difficult it has been to even get the public to recognize misinformation when they see it. Further, we always put identity and culture at

hari sreenivasan

hari

Here’s what a physician family member working at a hospital in Southern California sent me: This doctor is not a crisis actor, the children who sobbed at the loss of

Dondi West

dondiwest

This thread captures resources and points that I just mentioned during my @BlackInCyberCo1 on #RacismAndNationalSecurity! Before going any further, I have to pause and acknowledge two amazing thought leaders in

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

DebbieforFL

My district voted for Clinton +16% and Trump +6% — that's a DRAMATIC 22 pt swing at the top of the ticket not easily explained by this false narrative of

Christian Hoffmann

cphoffmann

I love how (academic) Twitter enables us to watch colleagues “think out lout”, as we grapple with current events. The recent shocking images from Washington have spawned a number of

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