🇬🇧🧑💻⛽️🔥 Close to the anniversary of the Southport misinformation spread and riots episode, I wrote about attempts made over the past year, by people in the same ecosystem, to gaslight and conspiracise a "vindication vibe" out of their utter humiliation, and the need for an "information battle station".
📑 https://sohandsouza.substack.com/p/simmering-narratives-and-southport
#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #disinfo #infoDisorder #conspiracism #factCheck #OSINT #SOCMINT #farRight #polarization
🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑🏫 The Media Innovation Studio's "Lessons from Southport" launch webinar, including my presentation on misinfo patterns fueling the riots, has been published.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGyE2THmPWc&t=1763s
#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #infoDisorder #platforms #tech #media #socialMedia
THU JUN/19: 🇬🇧🗞🔥🧑🏫 Approaching the first anniversary of the misinformation-amplified Southport-spinoff UK riots, I'll be joining the Media Innovation Studio's report launch webinar event "Crisis, Trust & the Media: What We Learned from Southport" to present on my investigations of the misinformation spread, and on how such information disorder is facilitated and incentivised by tech design.
🔗 https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c7131c1d-629b-4a60-a612-5ee0fbcff088@ebf69982-036b-4cc4-b202-7aeb194c5065
#Southport #UK #riots #misinfo #infoDisorder #platforms #tech #media #socialMedia
How will we ensure that ML models are equitable? Data gaps are a major problem. A board member of Wikimedia Foundation, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, has referred to this as a third pillar along side disinformation and misinformation -- missing information. This essay describes some of the equity challenges: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Content_tagging/Data_gaps
Sohan Dsouza
Nate Angell