Subsidiary FoldersPropaganda
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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The Complex Factors That Make Intractable Conflict So Difficult >
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Strategies and Tactics Used by Bad-Faith Actors
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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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Firehose of Falsehood Attack
A term developed by RAND to describe a propaganda technique in which large numbers of false messages are sent out rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels, so as to overwhelm the receiving audiences.
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Target-Cast Deception
Broadcasting sends out a message widely to everyone in a society. Narrowcasting sends messages out to particular groups, tailoring the message to be most resonant with that group. Target-casting goes even further, targeting individual people with messages designed to draw them into a particular cause.
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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.
Colleague Activities
QAnon and Mass Digital Radicalisation: Peacebuilding and the American Insurgency
An explanation of the positive feedback cycle between Trump, QAnon, and social media platforms, and how peacebuilders can respond.
Colleague Activities
Overcoming digital threats to democracy
A report outlining the ways in which the tools of deliberative democracy could be used to better govern information technologies and help protect the larger society.
News and Opinion
The Towering Lies of President Trump
The ultimate definition of facts implicit in the fake facts movement: if it helps me it's true, if it hurts me it's false.
News and Opinion
Have Trump's Lies Wrecked Free Speech?
We need a way to combat fake facts and disinformation that does not destroy the free and good faith of exchange of ideas that democracy requires.