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Class 35. How to Inoculate Your Mind Against Disinformation
For a world in which so many people are trying to deceive us, a class on how to protect ourselves.
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Countermeasures for Mitigating Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review
This Synthesis Report reviews the findings from 588 peer-reviewed publications, from around the world and many disciplines, to highlight the most effective countermeasures for disinformation.
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Information Warfare
Information warfare is getting increasingly common as the Internet and social media make it so easy and inexpensive to drown users in false information.
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Misinformation and Disinformation
Intentional distortion of information has become a significant problem in the social media driven information environment. It is trivially easy to make up very believable stories with photographic or "scientific data" as proof. And the mis/dis information strategy of "firehose of falsehoods" has successfully convinced many people that there actually is no truth, or at least no way to ascertain it. So best to just stick with your own beliefs -- right or not!
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Opposing Information Warfare
Successful democracies must be able to protect themselves from unscrupulous information warfare tactics that use high-tech propaganda techniques to attack enemies, inflame tensions, and undermine the social cohesion that democratic societies depend upon.
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Disinformation Fighters
Disinformation Fighters reduce the influence of deliberately deceptive and malicious disinformation and propaganda campaigns designed to inflame tensions while, at the same time, promoting the exchange of reliable information.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Misinformation with Samuel Spitale
A conversation about how misinformation shapes our reality -- and what we can do about it.
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Regulating fact from fiction: Disinformation in political advertising
As a starting point for thinking about the disinformation problem, concrete suggestions from Brookings.
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Bloomberg's online tactics test the boundary of disinformation
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Flagged Disinformation News, Distilled
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Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker
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Australia's Misinformation Police
A worrying account of Australia's new effort to legally prohibit disinformation -- an effort that could easily wind up criminalizing political criticism