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Feb 22 2021
News
Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement. It Led 1 Virginia Pastor To Quit
Jared Stacy is still processing his decision to leave Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., last year. Until November, he was ministering to young parishioners in their 20s and 30s.
But in the four years since he had joined the church as a pastor, Stacy had found himself increasingly up against an invisible, powerful force taking hold of members of his congregation:
NPR (Online News)Jan 25 2021
News
Dominion sues Rudy Giuliani for $1.3B over 'viral disinformation campaign'
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, seeking more than $1.3 billion in damages for what the voting machine company called the former New York City mayor’s “viral disinformation campaign” against them in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani was one of the key lawyers in Trump’s efforts
Washington ExaminerJan 18 2021
News
Twitter Temporarily Suspends QAnon Rep. For Election Disinformation, Inciting Violence
Twitter temporarily locked newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her personal account on Sunday afternoon after the QAnon follower sent out a slew of tweets that pushed election disinformation and incited supporters of President Donald Trump to “mobilize” and “make your voices heard.”
The Georgia Republican, who has a history of using her account to tweet incendiary rhetoric
HuffPostMar 27 2024
News
Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections
Russia has intensified its online efforts to derail military funding for Ukraine in the United States and Europe, largely by using harder-to-trace technologies to amplify arguments for isolationism ahead of the U.S. elections, according to disinformation experts and intelligence assessments.
In recent days, intelligence agencies have warned that Russia has found better ways to hide its
New York Times (News)Jan 05 2021
Opinion
Right-wing media used violent rhetoric to sow disinformation in 2020
As Americans joined nationwide protests against racial injustice following the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in 2020, right-wing media’s response was vicious and divisive. Conservative media figures painted Black activists as violent terrorists endangering the lives of its viewers and civilization itself, while outlets like Fox News celebrated white, right-wing vigilantes
Media MattersOct 29 2020
News
Tony Bobulinski: Dem's 'disinformation' tactic forced him to break silence
The tactic by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Rep. Adam B. Schiff and other Democrats to blame the Hunter Biden laptop scandal on “Russian disinformation” backfired badly in the mind of former Biden family business partner Tony Bobulinski.
It was after the unfounded Russian conspiracy chatter started that, Mr. Bobulinski said, he decided to break from the Biden clan. He became
Washington TimesNov 02 2020
Analysis
‘Disinformation’ And Other Media Excuses For Downplaying, Dismissing Hunter Biden Revelations
Establishment media outlets have largely downplayed and dismissed new revelations about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and how much his father, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, may have known about those dealings.
Media outlets have offered a variety of rationales for downplaying the revelations, which have come from newly surfaced emails and from one of Hunter Biden
The Daily CallerJun 02 2020
News
George Floyd protests: How to avoid disinformation and misinformation on Facebook and Twitter
George Floyd is not really dead. Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is supplying bricks to protesters.
Hoaxes, conspiracy theories and other falsehoods like these are spreading on Facebook and Twitter following Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis.
Bad actors exploit large-scale events dominating the national conversation to sow chaos and fear and deepen distrust
USA TODAYMay 18 2022
Analysis
How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks derail its disinformation efforts
On the morning of April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the first Disinformation Governance Board with the stated goal to “coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security.” The Biden administration tapped Nina Jankowicz, a well-known figure in the field of fighting disinformation and extremism, as the board’s executive director.
Washington PostMay 15 2022
Analysis
Media Ignore Criticism of DHS’s New ‘Disinformation’ Board—Unless it’s from the Right
Testifying in front of a House committee, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently announced DHS’s formation of a “Disinformation Governance Board.” The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”
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