How social media ‘censorship’ became a front line in the culture war washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Across offline+online, Fox News is single most widely used US source of news in Reuters Institute DNR data, used by 27% In July Newsguard changed rating to red label, arguing opinionated cable shows, "often based on clearly false claims", are extensively published+promoted online too

1/ 'Disinformation' isn't primarily about being lured in by falsehoods. It's about entirely parallel epistemic worlds that have been build, variously rejecting mainstream journalism, scientific method, academia, politics. Just like ours, it has investigators, controversies...

Back in 2018, a study out of MIT received a lot of media attention for supposedly saying that false news spread wider and faster. But what if that is really not the case? A🧵

Falsehoods aren’t always more engaging than truths online news.osu.edu/true-stories-c…

Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots via The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/02/08/tec…

🚨OUT NOW🚨 "Some men just want to watch the world burn", said Alfred about the Joker. Do you feel this is true in politics too? In American Political Science Review, we provide evidence of a "Need for Chaos" in the US electorate & dissect its causes & consequences: doi.org/10.1017/S00030… 🧵 1/17

Generative AI used to produce misleading political content

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Fact Check-Images appearing to show Donald Trump arrest created by AI reuters.com/article/factch…

Who was fooled by the puffer jacket pope? You're not alone. Nearly half of the 240,000 users polled by science influencer Hank Green were also duped. bit.ly/3Zt7Tjk

A bit lost with some words used in the disinformation world? We have exactly what you need: the disinformation glossary! Gathering 150+ entries with snap definitions & concrete examples, it is a solid, yet accessible, tool to navigate the field! 👇👇 disinfo.eu/publications/d…

Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology nytimes.com/2023/04/04/tec…

She became an anti-vaccine icon, and vanished. She's finally ready to talk about it. nbcnews.com/tech/misinform… via NBC News

Joe Ryan deep fake created with ChatGPT slashgear.com/1257041/joe-ro…

A new Twitter policy cripples journalists’ efforts to halt disinformation thehill.com/opinion/techno…

ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here's how you can be on alert theconversation.com/chatgpt-and-ot… via The Conversation U.S.

YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism axios.com/2023/06/02/us-…

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