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Constructive Conflict Guide > Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict > Defending Democracy from the Bad-Faith Actors Who Seek to Undermine It > Opposing Information Warfare
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MWEG's Media Literacy Toolkit
A collection of materials from MWEG (Mormon Women for Ethical Government) on news consumption, misinformation, bias, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and more.
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MediaWise Education Resources
MediaWise provides resources to help people identify misinformation through engaging, innovative media literacy education. Their goal is to inspire savvy digital citizens who know that when facts prevail, democracy wins.
News and Opinion
To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity
A insightful strategy for counteracting propaganda built around the application of biological concepts of immunity to the social system.
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Propaganda
Propaganda involves the obscuring, manipulating, or misconstruing of information for political gain. It may involve efforts to garner support amongst followers or to dampen the spirits of one's opponents.
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Propaganda
Unlike misinformation, which is always false, propaganda might be false or true. But it is information used in a biased or misleading way to promote a political cause or point of view.
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Democracy Playbook 2025
From Brookings, thoughts about how we might better protect the integrity of elections, promote the rule of law, combat corruption, and counter disinformation.
News and Opinion
The Government Created a New Disinformation Office To Oversee All the Other Ones
Another window into the vast bureaucracy that has been created to control disinformation and, quite possibly, political disagreement.
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World Health Organization Pushes Sweeping Censorship Treaty
Time to think about how a solution to one problem (rampant medical disinformation) may be creating another more serious problem -- global censorship of anyone who challenges the elites.
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You Can't Fact Check Propaganda
A really excellent description of the nature of propaganda in the context of the Israeli/Hamas war along with an explanation of the many limits of "fact-checking."
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Don't Let Your Disgust Be Manipulated
An explanation of a common propaganda technique and advice on how to resist it.
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Listeners' Rights in the Time of Propaganda: The Story of Lamont v. Postmaster General
We hear lots of passionate debate about the advantages and disadvantages of freedom of speech. This article looks at a different right -- our right to choose what we listen to.