Presentation Resources

Disinformation - General Resources

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• First Draft News - Training materials - Understand the Landscape of information disorder

• First Draft News - Information Disorder, Part 1: The Essential Glossary

• University of Oxford - Computational Propaganda Project

• The Conversation - Conspiracy Theories

• Center for Humane Technology - Nonprofit dedicated to humane and ethnical technology design and policy advocate. Highly recommended: Your Undivided Attention podcast. 

• Renee DiResta - Yale Review - Computational Propaganda - Make it Trend, Make it True​

 

One of the best ways to learn about disinformation is to follow trustworthy sources who study online culture and propaganda. Below are Twitter accounts worth following -- it's worth getting a Twitter account just to follow these accounts:

• @cward1e - Claire Wardle, Strategy Lead at FirstDraft News (want to learn about investigation - there are courses here)

• @JaneLytv - Jane Lytvynenko, Senior Reporter, Buzzfeed

• @RVAWonk - Carolyn Orr, Behavioral Scientist and Reporter

• @MelissaRyan - Melissa Ryan, Producer - Ctrl-Alt-Right-Delete (subscribe)

• @noUpside - Renee DiResta - Stanford Internet Observatory - recommend reading her wisdom on how the antivaxxers use social media

• @selectedwisdom - Clint Watts - Author, Reporter, MSNBC contributor

• @BostonJoan​ - Joan Donovan, PhD - Research Director, Shorenstein Center at Harvard - also check out Joan's Big If True series and subscribe to Meme War Weekly

• @BrandyZadrozny - Brandy Sadrozny - Reporter, NBC

• @conspirator0 - Conspirador Norteño - Data Scientist, Twitter researcher extraordinaire

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Here is a link to a Twitter list that includes these accounts. Follow this list and then access this list to always get the latest on what people who are expert at disinformation are talking about. This is an easy way to follow them all and stay tuned in.

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Newsletters are one of the best ways to keep in touch with the latest in the ever-evolving landscape of disinformation:

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• Melissa Ryan - Ctrl Alt Right Delete (newsletter sign-up)

• Meme War Weekly - weekly newsletter produced by the Technology and Social Change (TaSC) Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University (and subscribe)

• ACRONYM - FWIW (For What It's Worth) - a weekly newsletter tracking political spending and digital trends.

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Claire Wardle: More than Fake News - Understanding the Disinformation Ecosystem (2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" (2011) 

 

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Tristan Harris - How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day (2017) - video. Bonus: To better understand the effect that social media is having on our culture, check out The Center for Humane Technology, for which Tristan is a Founder, and particularly the Ledger of Harms.

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