There’s Something Fishy Happening Between Gab and a Far-Right GOP Candidate
Senior Analyst Shawn Eib is featured and quoted in Adam Rawnsley's piece on election related disinformation.
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Twitter Accounts Hyped Company Seeking Covid Vaccine Trials
Bloomberg: Jeff Stone A network of Twitter accounts pushed messages to boost the share price of a biotech company as it sought approval...
'Birtherism' to the 'Big Lie': Inside Obama's fight to counter disinformation
CNN: Dan Merica & Donie O'Sullivan Former President Barack Obama is urgently throwing himself into the fight against disinformation,...
Disinformation demands a collective defense
Alethea Group: Lisa Kaplan and Lee Foster When the term disinformation went mainstream after the 2016 election, it was largely in...
‘I’ll Stand on the Side of Russia’: Pro-Putin Sentiment Spreads Online
After marinating in conspiracy theories and Donald J. Trump’s Russia stance, some online discourse about Vladimir Putin has grown more...
How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection
NPR: Shannon Bond & Bobby Allyn Hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, angry Donald Trump supporters on Facebook coalesced around a rallying...
Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccines and the Biden Administration
A new campaign appears to be spreading falsehoods about the potential for forced inoculations against Covid-19. New York Times: Julian E....
Washington’s Most Powerful Women 2021
Our list of the region’s 150-plus most powerful women includes hometown heavyweights, national notables, and folks shaping things from...
Long After Trump's Loss, a Push to Inspect Ballots Persists
The New York Times Georgia has already counted its 2020 presidential vote three times, with the same result: President Biden defeated...
From sharing supervillain quotes to passing a Russian child model off as a deceased Palestinian
The Daily Beast: Noor Ibrahim The discourse around the most recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas was already toxic. Then,...
Chinese businessman with links to Steve Bannon is driving force for disinformation network
Washington Post: Jeanne Whalen, Craig Timberg and Eva Dou May 17, 2021 A sprawling online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui...
Us and Them: How Soviet-era Thinking Divided Immigrants Over Trump
Pulitzer Center: Anastasia Gliadkovskaya Belonging to groups is human. Like everyone, former Soviet Union immigrants living in the U.S....
Disinformation attacks are spreading. Here are 4 keys to protecting your company
Fortune: Lisa Kaplan It will be months before we fully grasp the significance of two key events—the impact of disinformation leading to a...
Twitter ups efforts to stop misinformation, labeling falsehoods related to COVID-19 vaccine
USA Today: Morgan Hines Twitter is bolstering its efforts to point out misinformation on the platform, a long-standing problem across...
How to Fix Facebook Groups
The New York Times The QAnon conspiracy theory, promotions of bogus health treatments and calls for violence based on false claims of...
Alternative Social Media Platforms Become Popular Among Some Trump Supporters
NPR: Shannon Bond As Facebook and Twitter crack down on extremist groups, some on the right are migrating to alternative social media...
Disinformation Experts, Security Officials Urge Media Literacy
newsy: Sasha Ingber Experts say more time at home because of coronavirus restrictions has contributed to a 'dis-infoverse. "It was almost...
Fearing more violence, online platforms are cracking down on livestreams from Washington
CNN Business: Faith Karimi When a mob of rioters overran barriers and broke into the Capitol on January 6, some of them boasted about...
These are the platforms that have banned Trump and his allies
How 10 social media and hosting companies dealt with violations of their content policies The Washington Post: Hannah Denham Some of the...
Trump's 5-year campaign of lies led to the Capitol attack. And we just let it happen.
Trump supporters online discussed civil war as inevitable and violence as a given, and bought and amplified Trump's lies that he won the...