CNN’s Abby Phillip last night: “[W]hen there is asymmetrical lying, there will be asymmetrical fact checking.” It's aspiration only, but the right principle. Now the practices have to catch up. Via POLITICO Playbook

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Thread about interesting investigative work into $DJT and its leadership.

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Pleasure being part of this important ITV documentary on the UK Riots and the prominent role of misinformation. Worth a watch especially the interviews with victims and former extremists itv.com/watch/tonight/…

"Sanewashing is the act of packaging radical and outrageous statements in a way that makes them seem normal." Here’s how reporters can steer away from it. poynter.org/ethics-trust/2… Practical advice and examples from kellymcb

Executive summary of the Cambridge Disinformation Summit Project. linkedin.com/pulse/executiv…

The engagement-fuelled logic of social media has bequeathed us a world in which what’s trending is a yardstick for what’s true, writes Sander van der Linden for nature. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Disinformation has been deployed to harm vulnerable communities throughout history and across settings. Many research groups study different elements of the structure, in different context settings; however, there has been little cross-dialogue for shared learning. (1/4)

Here’s an old disinformation tactic. Say something outrageous to distract from unfavorable press coverage and stoke division in society.

Kohut (1972): "Narcissistic rage occurs in many forms; …The need for revenge, for undoing a hurt by whatever means, and…unrelenting compulsion in the pursuit of all these aims… [with] utter disregard for reasonable limitations and a boundless wish… to obtain revenge."

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