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DisinfoDocket Apr 16, 2024

Tactical Tech ✅Apr 16, 2024

🚀Introducing "Everywhere, All the Time", a creative Digital Literacy intervention that equips educators with resources & methods to foster conversations among teens about tech & AI. It features captivating posters, engaging activities, and a comprehensive educator's guidebook.

🤖 Topics include AI chatbots, the hidden labor behind tech, attention-grabbing game designs and more!
#MediaLiteracyforEducators
🚀 Want to access the resources? https://theglassroom.org/youth/everywhere-all-the-time/

Everywhere, All the Time: a playful exhibition for teens about AI

“Everywhere, All the Time” is a creative and playful digital literacy intervention for youth. Developed by Tactical Tech's youth initiative What the Future Wants, this learning experience equips educators, librarians and anyone working with youth aged 13-19 with a set of engaging and innovative digital literacy resources and methods that can be used in both formal and informal learning environments.

DisinfoDocket Jan 16, 2024

To combat disinformation targeting Asian Americans, center language and communities https://ijnet.org/en/story/combat-disinformation-targeting-asian-americans-center-language-and-communities #misinformation #disinformation #journalism

To combat disinformation targeting Asian Americans, center language and communities

Disinformation runs rampant in immigrant communities in the U.S. It’s only increasing, too, due in large part to language barriers, social media and bad actors’ weaponization of entrenched fears. Many outlets, meanwhile, lack fact-checking resources for non-English speakers.

International Journalists' Network

DisinfoDocket Jan 16, 2024

Taipei has switched strategies in its fight against Chinese disinformation https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/16/taiwan-election-china-disinformation-lai/ #Taiwan #TaiwanElection #disinformation #misinformation

Taiwan's Electoral Anti-Disinformation Strategy Pays Off

Taipei has switched strategies in its fight against Chinese disinformation.

Foreign Policy

DisinfoDocket Dec 21, 2023

NYU's CSMaP Dec 20, 2023

Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @Nature. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06883-y

Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - Nature

Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.

Nature

DisinfoDocket Nov 12, 2023

Russian ‘influence-for-hire’ firms spread propaganda in Latin America: US State Department https://therecord.media/russia-influence-for-hire-firms-latin-america-propaganda-us-state-department?ref=disinfodocket.com #disinformation #misinformation #Propaganda

Russian ‘influence-for-hire’ firms spread propaganda in Latin America: US State Department

The U.S. government has uncovered an ongoing Russia-funded disinformation campaign across Latin America aimed at undermining support for Ukraine and discrediting the U.S. and NATO.

DisinfoDocket Nov 12, 2023

Experts welcome the measures taken by tech companies to defend election integrity but say more fundamental changes to political systems will be required to tackle misinformation. https://time.com/6333288/tech-companies-ai-misinformation/?ref=disinfodocket.com #Misinformation #disinformation #Elections2024

Tech Companies Are Taking Action on AI Election Misinformation. Will It Matter?

Recent actions taken by Meta and Microsoft to protect elections from AI will have limited impact on misinformation, say experts.

Time

DisinfoDocket Nov 3, 2023

In today's Free Friday:

* Facebook's algorithms 'supercharged' hate speech in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict

* Arabic-speaking WhatsApp users targeted with spyware

* Russian security service detains two hackers allegedly working for Ukraine... https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-3noc23/ #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda #newsletter

Free Friday 3 November

FreeFriday is a curation of recent influence operations-related headlines from around the world.

DisinfoDocket

DisinfoDocket Sep 29, 2023

In today's edition of our Free Friday newsletter:
* X Accused Of Weakening Measures Against Election #Misinformation
* What US #journalism should learn from the dire situation in Russia
* Progressive Slovakia becomes target of AI #disinformation... https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-29sep23-2/

Free Friday 29 September

FreeFriday is a curation of recent influence operations-related headlines from around the world.

DisinfoDocket

DisinfoDocket Sep 22, 2023

Today's Free Friday newsletter is out:
* Climate #Misinformation on Social Media: Elon Musk’s X Lags Behind - Why?
* The Kremlin’s #disinformation love song to North Korea
* Canada blames border checkpoint outages on cyberattack https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-22sep23/ #tech #climate #socialmedia

Free Friday 22 September

FreeFriday is a curation of recent influence operations-related headlines from around the world.

DisinfoDocket

DisinfoDocket Aug 25, 2023

In today's Free Friday newsletter:
* Zimbabweans Vote Under the Shadow of Mugabe
* FactChecking the First #GOPDebate
* As fires and floods rage, #Facebook and #Twitter are missing in action... https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-25aug23/ #misinformation #disinformation #ZimbabweElections2023

Free Friday 25 August

FreeFriday is a curation of recent influence operations-related headlines from around the world.

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