A university course teaches students why people believe false and evidence-starved claims, to show them how to determine what’s accurate and real and what’s neither.
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Artículos sobre Disinformation
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Teaching students about information literacy can help them determine what kinds of practices make news reports trustworthy.
Online reviews have a big impact on buying decisions – but how can shoppers sort the real ones from the fakes?
The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how fragile Twitter is and what would be lost with the platform’s demise.
The key to understanding online conspiracy theorists is to understand how the line between fantasy and reality can become blurred.
For the first time, we are asking readers if they can help support our mission to share knowledge in order to inform decisions.
Written in a breezy and accessible style, How to Stage a Coup is a dazzling compendium of underhanded tactics.
Our new paper shows how Indonesian-language disinformation promoting government narratives on special autonomy has swamped Twitter since February 2021.
What’s true and what’s not? An expert in media literacy explains how to evaluate information.
The disinformation age is changing what it means to produce fair or balanced reporting.
As elections approach – and even after they’re done – there’s a lot of confusing, and deliberately misleading, information out there. Learn how to protect yourself.
Researchers identified a connection between low levels of media literacy and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in people who consume their news via social media.
Citizens’ social media is a form of alternative media that challenges both mainstream media and right-wing propaganda.
Many conspiracy theories and disinformation are rooted in antisemitic tropes which spread harm and undermine our democratic institutions.
Misinformation has bedeviled social media companies for years, and the problem is especially consequential during elections. Are the companies up to the job as the 2022 midterm elections approach?
A partisan election system, attacks on election administration and widespread disinformation place the U.S. democracy in a precarious position.
Libraries play a crucial role in preserving texts, even controversial ones. They are responsible for teaching people how to evaluate the credibility and validity of information.
Russian government media are frequently criticized as being blatant propaganda. How do US government media measure up?
A military strategist breaks down how a smaller Ukrainian army has successfully taken back swaths of land from the Russians in the country’s northeast.
Major public media reform in New Zealand is coming at the same time as trust in government and media declines. The proposed new law needs to make political and editorial independence a top priority.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, School of Media and Strategic Communications, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
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Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University
