Topic
Disinformation
166 published works
The Right Coast
Hong Kong protests: China used Twitter and Facebook for disinformation campaign – Vox
Twitter uncovered more than 900 accounts originating from the People s Republic of China that were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong, the company said,…
TortsProf Blog
Citron on the Internet as It Is and Should Be
Danielle Keats Citron has posted to SSRN Cyber Mobs, Disinformation, and Death Videos: The Internet As It Is (And As It Should Be). The abstract provides:Fiction and visual representations can alter…
Media Law Prof Blog
Bârgăoanu and Radu on Some Insights Into Romanians’ Digital Behaviour @BargaoanuAlina
Alina Bârgăoanu, National School for Political and Administrative Studies, and Loredana Radu, SNSPA, are publishing Fake News or Disinformation 2.0? Some Insights Into Romanians’ Digital Behaviour, in volume 18 of…
Human Rights at Home Blog
UN Special Rapporteur Calls Out Government Disinformation Coming from the US President
In a wide-ranging interview published in the Digital Rights Monitor, David Kaye, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion,…
Mike McBride Online
Linked – Fake news, propaganda spread quickly on social media
By Mike McBride
I would like all of you who participate in social media to read the following quote very carefully: “According to Durfee, social media misinformation usually spreads due to a user’s…
The Right Coast
The Russian disinformation attack that poses a biological danger – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
In a series of increasingly confrontational statements, Russia has suggested that the Pentagon is establishing a chain of bio-weapons labs on its borders. At the heart of the accusations is…
PrawfsBlawg
Chinese Spies! Russian Trolls!! Self-Defeating Tribal Paranoia in America
Main Thursday, February 22, 2018Chinese Spies! Russian Trolls!! Self-Defeating Tribal Paranoia in AmericaLast Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned the Senate Intelligence Committee that Chinese students studying STEM subjects could…
The Right Coast
The tactics of a Russian troll farm – BBC News
It was 2014, and in a building in St Petersburg, the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) was already hard at work building its arsenal to take on US politics.According to…
The Right Coast
The tactics of a Russian troll farm – BBC News
It was 2014, and in a building in St Petersburg, the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) was already hard at work building its arsenal to take on US politics.According to…
The Right Coast
Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet
The central problem of disinformation corrupting American political culture is not Russian spies or a particular social media platform. The central problem is that the entire industry is built to…