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Elizabeth Sundsmo

Diss Information: Is There a Way to Stop Popular Falsehoods from Morphing into "Facts"?... - 0 views

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  • Elizabeth Sundsmo on 15 Oct 12
     
    . Directly, this article is a psycological analysis scientists have done about how misinformation affects peoples actions and decisions, but I also think that it plays a role in the election, foreign relations, and the turns the economy takes.
artemisiam2021

False Rumors That Activists Set Wildfires Exasperate Officials - The New York Times - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...antifa-wildfires.html

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  • artemisiam2021 on 22 Sep 20
     
    Misinformation spread through social media by right-wing groups is baselessly claiming that the Oregon Fires were started by Antifa, an anti-fascist left-wing movement. West Coast officials now not only have to deal with the wildfires but also must spend time refuting these groundless rumors.
samuelws

PolitiFact | How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy th... - 2 views

www.politifact.com/...ed-shape-modern-misinformation

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  • samuelws on 18 Sep 21
     
    This is a fascinating article that explains how the way that conspiracy theories spread was revolutionized when 9/11 happened just as the internet was really taking off. It talks mostly about the USA, but it's very relevant to the issues of censorship, both government and private, throughout the world.
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  • lauran5556555 on 20 Sep 21
     
    This article is really thorough! I never thought about conspiracy theories that way because it never occurred to me that they have played such a big role in some historical events. It is so interesting to know that the idea "to do your own research" is related to the formation and spread of conspiracy theories because I thought when people do more research, they will end up with the more facts.
  • cole_reynolds on 21 Sep 21
     
    This is a really good article! It does a great job of tracing the commonalities of conspiracy theories and showing how the tools crafted by 9/11 truthers shape conspiracies today
  • Kay Bradley on 01 Oct 21
     
    Yes, good find, Sam. The failure of facts in the pandemic is another powerful example of how the Internet seems to have helped those who know how to ask good questions to improve their knowledge and also facilitated the spread of a false reality among those who do not know how to ask good questions or check/corroborate their sources.
agnesg22

Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago - Scientific American - 1 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...ate-change-almost-40-years-ago

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  • agnesg22 on 02 Nov 21
     
    "A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation"
matteog2023

Disinformation in the Russia Ukraine war - 1 views

www.visionofhumanity.org/tion-in-the-russia-ukraine-war

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  • matteog2023 on 30 Aug 22
     
    While Ukraine has been able to use social media to their advantage by spreading information, increasing awareness of the problems they face, and pressuring companies and governments to aid them, Russia has been fighting back with national and international and propaganda campaigns. This struggle has caused a different kind of war to rage on between them, a cyber-war.
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  • slavatalanov on 31 Aug 22
     
    The Russia-Ukraine war is certainly unprecedented for the extent of civilian coverage. This is definitely to the defender's benefit, but with the sheer amount of data, the Ukrainian Armed Forces / Intelligence Agencies cannot possibly process all of while in time before it becomes obsolete. This century, disinformation warfare is only going to get more and more developed. Who knows what role it will play in future conflicts. Governments might use bots to fabricate entire offensives to confuse opposing forces.
  • julianatseh on 31 Aug 22
     
    This highlights an important issue that is becoming increasingly common. Social media and the internet is now being used as a weapon in war and it is used to influence elections. It is interesting to see how much social media really affects politics across the world, and we can only guess how much more it will be used in the future.
  • sebastianw2023 on 01 Sep 22
     
    Because of how strict much of Russia's information laws and restrictions have been even before the war, getting accurate information about the conflict from inside Russia is nearly impossible. Along with that, it is extremely easy for misinformation to spread across social media and news outlets.
  • Kay Bradley on 06 Sep 22
     
    Interesting observations, Subby, Juliana, Slava and Matteo. Add to this the fact that under Vladimir Putin's iron hand, censorship within Russia is intense. Opposition to Putin's government has been effectively silenced within Russia, and is being replaced by shows of strength and prosperity. Good article about this in Monday's NYT here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/world/europe/moscow-war-ukraine-mood.html
Kay Bradley

Disinformation in the 2020 Presidential Election: Latest Updates - The New York Times - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...ion-misinformation-distortions

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  • Kay Bradley on 03 Nov 20
     
    List of top false info stories circulating before election
anonymous

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen details company's misleading efforts on 60 Minute... - 1 views

www.cbsnews.com/...n-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03

Facebook Wistleblower

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  • anonymous on 05 Oct 21
     
    Facebook is under tremendous backlash from whistle blower Frances Haugens, especially as the longest global blackout for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp occurs.
  • ershai on 05 Oct 21
     
    Unfortunately, the whistleblower leak confirms what most people already suspected. I know there's been hearings on this subject on Capitol Hill, but I wonder if any policies will result from that. For a comparative politics questions, I wonder what data privacy laws and regulation on the actions of technology companies like Facebook are like.
samuelws

Guatemala: Anti-vaccine villagers attack and hold nurses with Covid jabs - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-latin-america-58801096

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  • samuelws on 21 Oct 21
     
    This is an interesting example of how misinformation is not just a problem in the US. The villagers linked one person's health problems that were not necessarily related to the vaccine to it, and then succumbed to mob mentality. It shows the fear that the past 1.5 years of pandemic have generated.
Kay Bradley

Donbas: Why Russia is trying to capture eastern Ukraine - BBC News - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...world-europe-60938544

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  • Kay Bradley on 06 Sep 22
     
    "Lysychansk"
  • anikar2023 on 07 Sep 22
     
    Interesting that Putin has repeatedly accused Ukraine of committing genocide in Donbas- spreading misinformation to the public
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