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Apr 09 2024
News
League of Women Voters are Combatting Disinformation
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTER OF BOULDER COUNTY TO HOST EVENT ON MISINFORMATION IN LONGMONT The League of Women Voters of Boulder County (LWVBC) is hosting a presentation on Making Democracy Work in an Age of Misinformation with keynote speaker Dr. Ian Shapiro. Dr. Shapiro will highlight the spread of political lies, why people fall for misinformation, and how to defend democracy in this highly
Yellow Scene MagazineMar 16 2024
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USAID 'Disinformation Primer' targets gamers, advertisers, memes, 'right not to be disinformed'
Going further than the Treasury Department's tacit support for debanking alleged "hate groups" after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, a State Department component that "strengthen[s] resilient democratic societies" developed a more sweeping plan for financially choking off disfavored narratives a month later.
The U.S. Agency for International Development wrote a "Disinformation Primer"
Just The NewsMar 26 2024
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Kate rumours linked to Russian disinformation
Security researchers believe a Russia-based disinformation group amplified and added to the frenzy of social media conspiracies about the Princess of Wales's health.
In the days before Catherine revealed her cancer diagnosis in a video message, there had been a surge in online rumours and often wild claims about her health, adding to the emotional pressure on the princess and her
BBC NewsApr 05 2024
Analysis
Why Democrats aren’t really worried about ‘disinformation’
Twelve years ago, Sasha Issenberg published “The Victory Lab,” and revealed how campaigns were using new data collection and social science advances to manipulate the electorate. “The Lie Detectives,” his new book, is an odd sort of sequel — a reported look at the battle against online “disinformation,” as seen through panicky Democrats and the political operatives that they hired after the
SemaforApr 08 2024
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Brazil Supreme Court investigating Elon Musk over obstruction, disinformation on X
A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late Sunday into the executive for alleged obstruction. In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk on Saturday began waging a public "disinformation campaign" regarding the top court's actions, and that
CBS News (Online)Apr 05 2024
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Microsoft: China Uses AI to Sow Disinformation and Discord Around the World
Faking a political endorsement in Taiwan ahead of its crucial January election, sharing memes to amplify outrage over Japan’s disposal of nuclear wastewater, and spreading conspiracy theories that claim the U.S. government was behind Hawaii’s wildfire and Kentucky’s train derailment last year. These are just some of the ways that China’s influence operations have ramped up their use of
Time MagazineMar 17 2024
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How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power. Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they had used to spread misinformation about his defeat and whip up the attempt to overturn it.
New York Times (News)Apr 09 2024
News
Pair targeted NY's Black voters with disinformation in 2020. Now it'll cost them.
Two right-wing activists who led a disinformation campaign ahead of the 2020 election to discourage thousands of Black voters in New York and other states from voting by mail have agreed to pay a settlement of up to $1.25 million, Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday. The effort, which deployed robocalls in the months ahead of the election, included threatening Black voters by falsely
GothamistMar 06 2024
Analysis
What fake images of Trump with Black voters tell us about AI disinformation
On Monday, a BBC investigation highlighted what it called an emerging disinformation trend in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign: fake, apparently AI-generated images purporting to show Donald Trump posing with Black people.
The story cited several images shared on X, Facebook and other platforms, suggesting they were aimed at influencing Black voters to support Trump. There was no
Washington Post