Houston Police Attempt to Link ‘Drug Spiking’ to Fatal Astroworld Concert
Networks uncritically took the local police chief’s claim as “confirmation.”
Networks uncritically took the local police chief’s claim as “confirmation.”
Disinformation campaigns depend on real-world events to offer an illusion of popularity for unpopular ideas, but they’re easy to spot when you know what to look for.
Cynical lies are undermining efforts to reach a population that has already been primed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine.
Vague insinuations and apocalyptic handwringing are sure signs of an inauthentically organized media strategy.
Graphika’s report finds that suspected Russian agents pushed ‘Stop the Steal,’ other anti-democratic narratives.
Botnets, professional trolls, and enablers are following what should be by now a very familiar pattern.
A Twitter account claimed he found “shrimp tails” in a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal in an increasingly strange series of tweets.
The brazen and blatant lies of gaslighting campaigns are difficult to fight with fact-checking alone, but they can be defeated through a multidisciplinary approach.
Imaginary claims of “voter fraud” and “invalid elections” are being used to sow doubt and chaos around the state-certified win of Democratic Party candidates.
A practical guide to battling common disinformation and other hybrid warfare tactics.