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Apr 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
News
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
News
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
News
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
GothamistApr 26 2024
News
Naperville News Digest: Daughters of the American Revolution present annual Naperville award; League of Women Voters holding program on ‘mis/disinformation’
The Fort Payne chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, based in Naperville, has presented scholarships and awards to numerous people in the community. They include: • Saishreyas Peddainti, a senior at Waubonsie Valley High School, and Sophie Lin, a senior at Neuqua Valley High School, received the Daniel Webster Scholarship, a $1,000 scholarship given to students
Chicago TribuneMar 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 PostJan 31 2024
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Was Hunter Biden’s Laptop Russian Disinformation?
The Hunter Biden laptop story has accentuated the disparity in media coverage from left and right outlets as much as any story since Joe Biden became president.
Some news outlets, especially ones that are rated as Lean Right or Right by AllSides, decried this saga as a ‘national tragedy’ of corruption by the Biden family (Tablet Mag, Lean Right), or ran opinion articles noting a ‘
Ethan HorowitzJun 05 2023
Opinion
Einstein and a Theory of Disinformation
A decade ago, Ivanka Trump offered her Twitter followers a bit of wisdom from one of the world’s favorite geniuses to impress her legions of Twitter followers. “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. — Albert Einstein.”
There was one problem: Einstein never said that.
Few noticed the tweet, let alone the mistake. That is until Einstein himself returned from the dead
Guest Writer - Center