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Disinformation

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  1. The Right Coast

    How Trump s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation – The New York Times

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Waged in the courts, in Congress and in the seething precincts of the internet, that effort has eviscerated attempts to shield elections from disinformation in the social media era. It…

  2. Gender and the Law Prof Blog

    Gender and Gaslighting in the Public Messaging of Covid

    By Tracy Thomas

    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Hysteria Redux: Gaslighting in the Age of Covid, in Symposium: Gender, Health & the Constitution, 15 ConLawNOW 65 (2024)This article addresses the relationship among hysteria, gaslighting, and…

  3. The Right Coast

    Germany’s top security official wants easier ways to track right-wing extremist financing | AP News

    By Thomas A. Smith

    BERLIN (AP) Germany s top security official said Tuesday that she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing extremists financing and plans to set up an early recognition unit…

  4. In-House Consigliere

    The Era of Deep Fakes

    By Dennis Garcia

    While I am not a "Swifty," I'm a very big fan of the National Football League (NFL). Football fans like myself have been recently seeing a lot of highly popular…

  5. The Right Coast

    It s Time To Save Civilization From The Pathocratic State

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The single word that best describes the professional-managerial class-dominated deep state agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, FBI, and others, along with news media corporations that…

  6. The Right Coast

    Disinformation starts at the top with America’s elites

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Just like tanks, our society is more vulnerable to misinformation attacks at the top, but we ve been concentrating our defenses further down, with poor results.Efforts at protecting our society…

  7. The Right Coast

    All the News Fit for You To Hear | RealClearPolitics

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Do you want your government, under the guise of managing foreign affairs, to divert its anti-terror technology and resources to censor a segment of the American domestic press? Do you…

  8. Nonprofit Law Prof Blog

    CCDH Anti-SLAPPs Elon, and Elon “Thermonuclear” SLAPPs Media Matters

    By nonprofitlawprof

    As we easily predicted, the Center for Countering Digital Hate filed a 12(b)(6) motion against the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.  Elon sued CCDH a while back because…

  9. Broadcast Law Blog

    Meta to Require Labeling of Digitally Altered Political Ads (Including Those Generated By AI) – Looking at the Rules that Apply to Various Media Platforms Limiting Such Policies on Broadcast and Cable

    By David Oxenford

    Facebook parent Meta announced this week that it will require labeling on ads using artificial intelligence or other digital tools regarding elections and political and social issues. Earlier this week,…

  10. The Right Coast

    Mike Benz: The Stanford Cyber Censorship Squad: Newsguard, GDI, Check My Ads | Video | RealClearPolitics

    By Thomas A. Smith

    A little bit more on Francis Fukuyama here. I said in a post earlier that Francis Fukuyama is known as an academic, but his actual career history is a lot…