Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience Through Media and Information Literacy by Divina Frau-Meigs & Nicoleta Corbu, 2024
Offering a comparative study of 4 European national experiences (France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), the authors also make public policy recommendations to improve the fight against disinformation.
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz, 2024
In Stories Are Weapons , best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats―the essential tool kit for psychological warfare―have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars.
The goal: to have a comprehensive data driven understanding how multi-generational trauma shapes implicit bias in institutions, groups, familes etc and how it intertwines DK in community leaders.
So that we can work together to address these issues together!
Our audiences deserve to know not just what we know, but how we know it. Using the #C2PA standard, BBC News is leading the way with a brand new feature to securely show how how we check and verify the material we use. Read more here: https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2024/content-credentials/
The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.
This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.
New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.
‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.
Exciting news! RMIT's DERC has "soft launched" their new lab on Digital Hostility and Disinformation. Our new lab is working on panels, conferences, and publications. Tropics we're exploring include online abuse and hate speech, misinformation, and solutions for platform misuse.
The LGBTQ+ study I'm assisting with for the lab is still open and can be found on my profile!
Is this the future of social media? It certainly is better than Silicon Valley/commercial-surveillance disinformation platforms by orders of magnitude, yes...
...but personally, I have a different view.
I recommend reading the "Public Service Internet" manifesto. It was a privilege to read it. This is one of my greater research interests as well.
Tl;dr: an internet infrastructure of the people, by the people, and for the people — including democratic governance, user representation (suffrage), and citizen co-ownership of resources. NOT government-owned.
Of course there are some bits I disagree with too.
One could argue Mastodon/Fediverse is like that... but not truly (I like the place though). Here's why →
"Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse. Here we present a comprehensive theoretical framework of (anti)science belief formation and updating to account for the psychological factors that influence the acceptance or rejection of scientific messages."
Netanyahu attempted sometime ago to connect the Palestinian national leader (~1920-1940s) Hajj Amin al-Husseini to #Germany’s Final Solution plan for the Jewish Problem. His unscrupulous and cynical weaponizatipn of the memory of the holocaust forced #YadVashem scholars to publicly correct the record. Professor Dina Porat said #Netanyahu was “completely erroneous, on all counts”, while Professor Dan Michman wrote “The Mufti was not in a position to ‘convince’ Hitler, nor did the Mufti actually suggest #genocide on this occasion Amin-Hitler meeting, a photo of which is often used by Jewish ultranationalists in their [#disinformation campaigns].”
Get some more insights into Day 1 of the #regroup#minipublic in Florence! 🇮🇹
The invited resource persons from the European University Institute share their insights. How was it for them to participate and to discuss the #covidcrisis with the citizens?
On Saturday, our partners from the European University Institute and Jagiellonian University will kick-off with the first sessions, focussing on the pandemic experiences of participants related to #politicaltrust, #disinformation and #expertknowledge.
⭐ "Investing in education and the development of critical thinking is more important than ever, as it will help to limit the risks of disinformation posed by the advent of technologies such as the internet and artificial intelligence."