Disinformation - Online - Dangerous

Disinformation / Misinformation

The Bane of the Early Internet Age

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation

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From Micah Sifry:

April 2021

On Anti-disinformation work

In the last five years of a whole cottage industry (has been built) of research centers, academic studies, journalistic conferences and tech summits on disinformation.

In 2017, the CUNY School of Journalism (now called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY) launched a $14 million News Integrity Initiative with primary funding from Facebook, with the goal of “helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.” That same year, the Omidyar Network announced $100 million in funding for journalism outlets and to organizations combating hate speech and the spread of false information. The Annenberg Innovation Lab launched a “Truthiness Collaborative” to “advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem.

Now in just the last year, there’s a plethora of new organizations with names like The Forum on Information and Democracy, Digital Citizens Alliance, the Coalition for a Safer Web, and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

• https://theconnector.substack.com/

More from Micah:

The disruptive moment is over: Micah Sifry on why the internet hasn’t transformed politics (yet) (2014)

To Change Voters’ Sympathies, It’s Time to Go Deep

• https://civichall.org/civicist/a-personal-message-from-civic-hall-co-founder-micah-sifry/

• https://micahsifry.medium.com/organizing-in-the-digital-age-lessons-from-the-indivisible-movement-1030fb4d4386

• https://www.amazon.com/Big-Disconnect-Internet-transformed-Politics/dp/1522663126

• https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/407843.Micah_L_Sifry

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