How to Fight Disinformation: Part II — Gaslighting
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.
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.
The social media platform announced in September 2020 that it was beginning “augmented reality” reporting partnerships with news organizations.
Michigan’s Attorney General warned of election day robocalls received by Flint residents warning of “long lines” — and advising them to vote “tomorrow.”
Inflammatory and corrosive rhetoric is being laundered via social media commentary from fringe sites into the mainstream at a time of increasing uncertainty and instability.
A story about incriminating emails and other materials found on a laptop that may or may not actually have belonged to Hunter Biden relies heavily on innuendo and paper-thin sourcing.
The platform would not say why pages for “It’s Going Down” and other groups were removed.
On March 17 2020, Imperial College London’s coronavirus response modeling report came to the attention of the broader public — which is why you’re suddenly seeing it everywhere.
Roger Stone, who for years worked with business partner Paul Manafort, specializes in smears and spectacles.
As the first Democratic primary event spiraled into chaos and coin flips, social media users blamed campaigns and post-2016 reforms for the bizarre series of events.
We’re 99.99999999 percent sure it’s nowhere close to a million.