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Disinformation networks sit atop the internet, ready to churn out conspiracy theories and flood the news cycle.
Disinformation Pipeline
Obama’s Right, Elon’s Wrong: Democracy Needs to Defend Itself Against...
04/14/22
Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter in order to protect free speech and therefore democracy demonstrates a lack of understanding of the threat that disinformation...
Engagement with False Content Producers Plummeted on Twitter and Facebook
08/24/21
Sites that gather and present information irresponsibly (according to the news-rating service NewsGuard) accounted for a record-high one-fifth of Facebook...
Engagement with Deceptive Sites on Facebook and Twitter Dropped in the...
05/25/21
Engagement with content from deceptive sites on Facebook and Twitter retreated from last year’s historic highs during the first three months of 2021....
Opinion: Facebook and Twitter can do something about deceptive news. So...
02/01/21
IF IT looks like a news site, publishes like a news site and posts like a news site, is it a news site? Don’t count on it. A study from the German Marshall...
Scoop: Verified tweeters smashed records sharing deceptive content
01/28/21
Verified accounts on Twitter shared more content from deceptive websites than ever in 2020, according to new research from the German Marshall Fund shared...
Social Media Engagement with Deceptive Sites Reached Record Highs in 2020
01/27/21
On January 6, a mob stormed the Capitol over false claims of voter fraud. Those false claims spread widely on social media: Facebook and Twitter have been...
New Study by Digital New Deal Finds Engagement with Deceptive Outlets Higher...
10/12/20
Four years ago, the country was learning about disinformation and the impact it can have on U.S. (and world) elections. Since then, social media platforms...
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016
10/12/20
During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook , Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms to spread disinformation...
Climate
The Technology 202: How social media helped fuel false claims about Texas...
02/23/21
Conservatives' false claims that frozen wind turbines caused mass power outages in Texas started with a photo taken out of context on Twitter. New...
How the Disinformation Supply Chain Created a Deceptive Narrative about...
02/19/21
Severe weather hobbled the electrical grid in Texas last week, but it did not hobble the United States’ disinformation supply chain. In just a few days,...
Disinformation about Oregon Wildfires Still Circulating in Private Facebook...
09/16/20
Last week, a debunked conspiracy theory linking the Oregon wildfires to Antifa groups began circulating online. The conspiracy was disseminated by accounts...
Exclusive: False fire rumors keep spreading on Facebook despite ban
09/16/20
Conspiracy theories about the origin of fires in Oregon are still spreading through private Facebook groups days after the social media giant announced...
Targeting Greta Thunberg: A Case Study in Online Mis/Disinformation
07/22/20
The German Marshall Fund’s Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative worked with MediaCloud to examine misinformation and disinformation related to...