Tracking National and Global Efforts to Distort the Truth
A deceptively simple avenue for delivering disinformation appears to be growing in popularity, even though the method itself has been around for years. Purveyors of disinformation create false news stories or screen captures, making...
Disinformation Week is proud to introduce its Four-part series that focuses on the Driving Forces Behind Global and Local Disinformation Campaigns. It’s part of our dedicated set of IN DEPTH stories on issues related...
When organizations work to establish disinformation monitoring programs, it can be risky for them to focus on just one end of the political spectrum. That can give an appearance of bias – which can...
The appears that some of the hottest conference tickets for 2023 will be to events that focus on the study of disinformation and how it can be addressed. There are several dozen such conferences...
The sheer quantity of today’s disinformation, and its growing impact on citizens, is affecting more than just people’s understanding of news events. For some, the cascade of disinformation blurs the line between well-research news...
Russian disinformation operators are still quite active on social media sites, according to recent research conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and the social media analytics firm Graphika. Their report, released this month, claims...
Following the flow of grant money sometimes can spotlight larger shifts in international priorities. Today, disinformation is a growing threat across the globe. In turn, that has led to increased opportunities for grants, scholarships...
In newsrooms across American, the disinformation beat is on the rise. Anyone who follows the business of news knows these operations assign reporters to various “beats.” At a typical newspaper or TV station, you...
Teaching media literacy in high schools is becoming a popular way to provide students with the tools they need to recognize and mitigate false news narratives. Such courses also can help students learn how...
Three months after disbanding its controversial Disinformation Governance Board, the Department of Homeland Security is still working with big social media companies to track and combat international disinformation efforts. That’s the claim made by...
A major Cybersecurity firm is warning that disinformation campaigns will be leveraged to try to make U.S. citizens doubt the results coming from the voting machines The report, titled, Hoax in the Machine: Disinformation...
The president and a board member of True the Vote, a group which advocates for dis-proven voter fraud conspiracies, were jailed recently in Texas, where a federal judge found them in contempt of court....
It’s no secret that hundreds of local newspapers have gone out of business in recent years. It’s a huge challenge for print journalism to compete with the low cost and immediacy of online news....
Disinformation News from Around the Web
