Tag: disinformation
State Dept.’s Fight Against Disinformation Comes Under Attack
The Global Engagement Center has become the focus of Republican-led criticism that the U.S. government coerces social media platforms into removing of [...]
Canada flags concern on AI-generated deepfake disinformation campaigns
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service — Canada’s primary national intelligence agency — raised concerns about the disinformation campaigns conduc [...]
Election disinformation campaigns targeted voters of color in 2020. Experts expect 2024 to be worse.
“They’re getting more complex, more sophisticated and spreading like wildfire,” said Sarah Shah, director of policy and community engagement at the a [...]
Ruling Puts Social Media at Crossroads of Disinformation and Free Speech
Two months after President Biden took office, his top digital adviser emailed officials at Facebook urging them to do more to limit the spread of “vac [...]
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinf [...]
Prominent conservatives share online disinformation about Paul Pelosi assault
And some Republicans are taking notice of the mismatch between GOP leaders’ official response to the assault — condemning it while rejecting any l [...]
How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable
Ahead of the midterm elections, the proliferation of alternative social media sites has helped cement false and misleading information as a defining f [...]
Tether responds to Wall Street Journal ‘disinformation’
Tether Holdings Limited has clapped back at The Wall Street Journal over an article it claims spread “false information” about the stablecoin issuer’s [...]
Disinformation Has Become Another Untouchable Problem in Washington
WASHINGTON — The memo that reached the top of the Department of Homeland Security in September could not have been clearer about its plan to create a [...]
Why Voting Disinformation Is Not Just Online
When it comes to elections, disinformation is not just a problem online.Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin argue in a new report that di [...]
Deceptive Mailings, False Billboards: Voting Disinformation Is Not Just Online
When it comes to elections, disinformation is not just a problem online.Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin argue in a new report that di [...]
The Best Books to Read on Disinformation: Its History, Techniques and Effects
The phenomenon has undermined our trust in electoral systems, in vaccines — and in what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Here are books on its [...]
DHS Suspends Its New Disinformation Board, Following Criticism
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that it was suspending the work of an internal advisory board intended to combat disinforma [...]
Mayorkas cites misinformation about Homeland Security’s disinformation board
DHS announced the creation of its Disinformation Governance Board on Wednesday with the goal of countering disinformation coming from Russia and reb [...]
Small group, big headache: Inside DHS’ messy Disinformation Governance Board launch
“The irony is that this board is really kind of boring,” said a DHS official who was not authorized to address the topic on the record. “It was desig [...]