JonathanDisinformation.
It's not new. It can be foreign interference.
A thread in which I provide links to articles about disinformation and combatting it, and also get banned by a (fake) television channel.
This is a good entry page
Some interesting publications on the government of Canada CSIS website
https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/publications.html
There have been many articles written on disinformation, its sources, reasons, etc.
This is just one:
Government-sponsored disinformation and the severity of respiratory infection epidemics including COVID-19: A global analysis, 2001–2020
Internet misinformation and government-sponsored disinformation campaigns have been criticized for their presumed/hypothesized role in worsening the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We hypothesize that these government-sponsored disinformation ...
This is just one example, but disclose.tv is misinformation.
(I got blocked on the bird site by them for this post.)
https://www.dw.com/en/disclosetv-english-disinformation-made-in-germany/a-60694332
Well I've never been blocked by a (kinda) TV channel before so ...
... that's cool.
"That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It."
Broniatowski, David A., et al . ‘Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate’. American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 10 (October 2018): 1378–84. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567.
"It was especially effective to offer rebuttals in “vulnerable subgroups,” such as people in the U.S. who identify as conservative."
Amusing sentence, haha.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0632-4
Hmm this isn't free either.
This is a summary article, which is:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0746-8.pdf
Here are authors' slides:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/epi-win/presentations-of-all-speeches/webinar-14-ps-ue-8-april-2020.pdf?sfvrsn=7725b501_2
Countering science denial - Nature Human Behaviour
As the spectre of ‘post-truth’ looms over society, an important question remains: how to effectively respond to the growing climate of science denial? New research shows that leaving denial unanswered can have negative consequences. Fortunately, countering science deniers can reduce their influence, even among those most likely to hold anti-scientific beliefs.
"It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1739732
This one is not free. I won't delete it, but I thought it was open access.
Allem, Jon-Patrick, and Emilio Ferrara. ‘Could Social Bots Pose a Threat to Public Health?’ American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 8 (August 2018): 1005–6. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304512.
Kate Nyhan is changing servers@jmcrookston Someday I will stop being so salty about how AJPH sticks a paywall in front of so much of its OLD content that is FREE TO READ in PubMed Central... but today is not that day
Link to read the short paper you recommended without a subscription:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050826/
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APHA (the association): Our mission is to "Improve the health of the public and achieve equity in health status"
AJPH (the journal): "We aim to embrace all of public health, from global policies to the local needs of public health practitioners, and provide the historical context and the evidence."
Also AJPH:if you're not a member of the association, and if you're not affiliated with an academic institution with a big library, please pay $24 to access this 941-word article
Yeah I see another one of the articles is also pay, so linked a summary and authors' slides. What a pain.
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If it's in AJPH, it is (or will be) available in PMC one or two years after the official publication date
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/258/
If it's from a different journal, I recommend the browser plugins Unpaywall and OA Button to be informed about legal, free-to-tead copies that the authors might have "self-archived" in repositories or their own website.
If it's in AJPH, it is (or will be) available in PMC one or two years after the official publication date
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/258/
If it's from a different journal, I recommend the browser plugins Unpaywall and OA Button to be informed about legal, free-to-tead copies that the authors might have "self-archived" in repositories or their own website.
TJ Radcliffe@kdnyhan @jmcrookston I wasn't aware of Unpaywall... thanks for mentioning it!