Friday, January 24, 2025

More About Disinformation

It's time, unfortunately, for links to more articles about disinformation and misinformation. 

  • DisinfoWatch.org "DisinfoWatch is a leading Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform. Our data is sourced through an international network of journalists, civil society organizations and analysts, as well as some automated sources, and is anaylized and exposed in order raise broader general awareness of disinformation and build long-term resilience against it." If you're from the US, don't let the fact that this is a Canadian site deter you from using it. Their database 
  • A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service. The new kid on the block is being introduced to the real world. 
  • Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies. "As false information about wildfires in Los Angeles rages online, Mark Zuckerberg is fanning the flames of disinformation."
  • Distorting Trump's Language. "MAGA's terminology is an inaccurate means of describing our state of affairs--together, we must reframe and rename our political vocabulary."
  • Voodoo Trade Policy Comes to America. "What to expect when you’re expecting tariffs." There's a lot of economic misinformation coming our way these days. Paul Krugman exposes some of it. 

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