Disinformation - Online - Dangerous: Difference between revisions
Siterunner (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Siterunner (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
From Micah Sifry: | From Micah Sifry: | ||
April 2021 | April 2021 | ||
'''''Anti-disinformation work seems to have boomed of late, but is a lot of it just well-educated people writing reports for each other on how bad the problem is?''''' | |||
''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 the last five years of a whole cottage industry (has been built) of research centers, academic studies, journalistic conferences and tech summits on disinformation.'' | ||
| Line 13: | Line 15: | ||
○ | |||
[[Category:Digital Citizen]] | [[Category:Digital Citizen]] | ||
[[Category:Digital Rights]] | [[Category:Digital Rights]] | ||
[[Category:Education]] | [[Category:Education]] | ||
[[Category:EOS eco Operating System]] | [[Category:EOS eco Operating System]] | ||
[[Category:Green Politics]] | [[Category:Green Politics]] | ||
[[Category:Human Rights]] | [[Category:Human Rights]] | ||
| Line 30: | Line 29: | ||
[[Category:Online Education]] | [[Category:Online Education]] | ||
[[Category:Online Privacy]] | [[Category:Online Privacy]] | ||
[[Category:Planet Citizen]] | [[Category:Planet Citizen]] | ||
[[Category:Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]] | [[Category:Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]] | ||
[[Category:Privacy Rights]] | [[Category:Privacy Rights]] | ||
[[Category:World Wide Web]] | [[Category:World Wide Web]] | ||
Revision as of 19:32, 20 April 2021
From Micah Sifry:
April 2021
Anti-disinformation work seems to have boomed of late, but is a lot of it just well-educated people writing reports for each other on how bad the problem is?
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.
○