#Disinformation

GOPPouncer

Mellecon

Melle Rant some truths:1) No, not everyone yanks their wanker on work zoom calls. That's actually quite creepy, but given that the media has been larping "the resistance" for 4

Tim Ruback

ProfRuback

So IR folks, do any of you use podcasts as texts for your 100 level classes? I'm trying to rethink some readings, bc when classes went online this spring, all

You Hunt Street Bats

thakeebman

I watched a documentary the other day called “active measures” and basically since then, I’ve been wondering how much outrage online is real and how much is manufactured in a

sylvie

SassyGirlBoss

GET YOURSELF AN ATTORNEY! You sick derange stalker! https://twitter.com/chriseargle/status/1317817595765063680?s=21 I’ve been stalked for 2 years of my life by a psychopath stalker and middle aged women.... now anyone who participated

Lock Omoplata

LockOmoplata

[1/n]No efforts of containing #Covid19 in India will be enough until these people stop spreading disinformation like in this video.This is at least 8th such viral video I've come across

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(DEBATE PREP THREAD) What's about to happen in the United States—at 9PM ET tonight—will be as dangerous a public broadcast as America has ever experienced. This thread by a Trump

Leslie Poston 🏳️‍🌈

leslie

Color me unsurprised that @Twitter couldn't be bothered to deal with over a decade of racists and death threats and disinformation campaigns and bots but won't let people discuss or

Xeni “4 Seasons Total Landscaping” Jardin

xeni

We have to deal with the fact that it’s not just his supporters affected by the cult of personality, the disinformation tornado. The rest of us have some detoxing to

Matt Gaetz

mattgaetz

It appears Gowdy is making a “zero” w his fingers, perhaps reflecting the number of subpoenas the Gowdy/Goodlatte investigation generated. I don’t understand how the brilliant Gowdy was so effective

First Draft

firstdraftnews

A thread about why verification matters, and why we constantly need to think about the processes and ethical boundaries. First Draft started 5 years ago to work on standards

Raphael Satter

razhael

Last week, I wrote about Oliver Taylor, a bogus journalist generated with the help of a deep learning algorithm. (Here: https://www.reuters.com/article/cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation

Emily Bazelon

emilybazelon

Is the American First Amendment the best way to protect free speech? For @NYTMag, I argue that the answer is ... maybe not. At least, we should consider how democracies

TimKarr

TimKarr

This Tweet... Is @RealDonaldTrump's reaction to Twitter's decision to attach a warning label to an earlier Trump tweet that spread disinformation about #COVID19 Trump and his enablers in Congress &

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

There is a factual error in this story that we need to discuss as researchers. White supremacists didn’t “learn from Russia.” In fact, US groups have long used the affordances

Alexandra Chalupa

AlexandraChalup

The media still doesn’t want to talk about how Kremlin agent Paul Manafort targeted Hunter Biden in 2014 as an attack on his father VP Joe Biden who was going

Tim W. Jones

SpeakerTimJones

THREAD:The US is winning the war against the Wuhan #CoronavirusThis is making the far left & their liberal media mouthpieces more determined to destroy America.FACTS:*US has LOWEST #COVID19 mortality rate