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Please think about applying or share with your networks. The Fellows we're about to announce for the spring are really wonderful.

We’re excited to launch this op-ed series promoting South-to-South knowledge exchange in the disinformation and tech policy space ❤️ we reject having to wait for “the EU model” or whatever for us to advocate for our countries and support fellow researchers and activists 🌟

Applications are open for our new Local Investigations Fellowship! In addition to a resume and clips, we're asking applicants to submit a memo of their investigative story idea or area of focus. nytimes.com/localinvestiga…

I joined NECN/LX News to talk about how technology incentivizes misinformation, the need for more transparency, and how people can prepare for the election youtu.be/Xvv5s63o59k

This looks really useful. Thanks for pulling it together @IOpartnership

🧵 In the lead-up to almost every election around the world since 2016, we’ve seen the same “zombie” rumors, even some of the same manipulated or out-of-context images and videos circulating. But with the US midterms next Tuesday, we’re likely to see something a bit different.

Huge congratulations to everyone at the Brown Information Futures Lab APAC team (Anne Kruger, PhD Esther Chan Stevie Zhang 張珮琳) for putting together this guidebook on tackling mis/disinformation in Southeast Asia 🎉 Glad to have contributed and excited to see what comes next!! bit.ly/3UeWLEJ

Big thanks to Ciarán O'Connor, Elise Thomas, @eliothiggins.bsky.social and William Kilbride for their thoughts on this technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/106…

Very excited about our first cohort of Brown Information Futures Lab Fellows. They are all people working on these issues every day, so I already know the impact is going to be significant.

Many thx to AAM for supporting Journal_List and our trust.txt system. By engaging ~1,100 media members, AAM is sending a collective trust signal that will elevate dependable news sites and distinguish journalists from misinformation peddlers. bit.ly/aam-trust

1/ Pleased to share a Global Voices study looking at narratives of authoritarianism in 20 countries. The work looks at how countries shape information ecosystems to push acceptance of authoritarian practices. [advox.globalvoices.org/2023/08/04/unf…] #unfreedommonitor @advox

50 papers. 119 interventions. “There’s no silver bullet to mitigating health misinformation” Great systematic review by StefanieFriedhoff Claire Wardle et al. healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…

🧵Today’s major information challenges are best met by solutions focused on communities. This local approach inspired our first class of Information Futures Fellows. Now, fellows are ready to share what they have learned. #IFLFellows sites.brown.edu/informationfut…

When we asked diaspora communities in South Florida about their questions & concerns, here is one we didn't expect: "Alexa says there will be no election in 2024" Information inequities breed misinformation vulnerabilities--we explain how in a new white paper with We Are Más

We’ve already seen deepfakes infiltrating the 2024 election cycle. Just how will this impact voters? Misinformation experts Sam Gregory and Claire Wardle discuss what’s at stake. This conversation is part of the WNET series "Take on Fake." hari sreenivasan youtu.be/OPYv9SvY4Uk

I was asked by @unpeacekeeping & UN Genocide Prevention to write a report on the overlaps & differences between hate speech, disinfo & misinfo, with a particular focus on conflict settings. Hope it's useful for research, practice & policy. peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/…

Terrific NPR story this morning covering our Brown Information Futures Lab We Are Más pilot in Florida’s diaspora communities. When we train hairdressers, construction workers, local leaders as Information Navigators, they become powerful arbiters of credible information. npr.org/2024/06/14/nx-…

"If we keep blaming the technology, we’re never going to own the solution." Read Melissa Bell (always an inspiration for me) - her apology, her explanation of what went wrong at the Chicago Sun-Times, and what she and her colleagues will do next. chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2025/0…