🚀Introducing "Everywhere, All the Time", a creative Digital Literacy intervention that equips educators with resources & methods to foster conversations among teens about tech & AI. It features captivating posters, engaging activities, and a comprehensive educator's guidebook.

🤖 Topics include AI chatbots, the hidden labor behind tech, attention-grabbing game designs and more!
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To combat disinformation targeting Asian Americans, center language and communities https://ijnet.org/en/story/combat-disinformation-targeting-asian-americans-center-language-and-communities #misinformation #disinformation #journalism

Taipei has switched strategies in its fight against Chinese disinformation https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/16/taiwan-election-china-disinformation-lai/ #Taiwan #TaiwanElection #disinformation #misinformation

Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @Nature. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06883-y

Russian ‘influence-for-hire’ firms spread propaganda in Latin America: US State Department https://therecord.media/russia-influence-for-hire-firms-latin-america-propaganda-us-state-department?ref=disinfodocket.com #disinformation #misinformation #Propaganda

Experts welcome the measures taken by tech companies to defend election integrity but say more fundamental changes to political systems will be required to tackle misinformation. https://time.com/6333288/tech-companies-ai-misinformation/?ref=disinfodocket.com #Misinformation #disinformation #Elections2024

In today's Free Friday:

* Facebook's algorithms 'supercharged' hate speech in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict

* Arabic-speaking WhatsApp users targeted with spyware

* Russian security service detains two hackers allegedly working for Ukraine... https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-3noc23/ #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda #newsletter

In today's edition of our Free Friday newsletter:
* X Accused Of Weakening Measures Against Election #Misinformation
* What US #journalism should learn from the dire situation in Russia
* Progressive Slovakia becomes target of AI #disinformation... https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-29sep23-2/

Today's Free Friday newsletter is out:
* Climate #Misinformation on Social Media: Elon Musk’s X Lags Behind - Why?
* The Kremlin’s #disinformation love song to North Korea
* Canada blames border checkpoint outages on cyberattack https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-22sep23/ #tech #climate #socialmedia

In today's Free Friday newsletter:
* Zimbabweans Vote Under the Shadow of Mugabe
* FactChecking the First #GOPDebate
* As fires and floods rage, #Facebook and #Twitter are missing in action... https://www.disinfodocket.com/ff-25aug23/ #misinformation #disinformation #ZimbabweElections2023

How much of your company’s ad budget funds #disinformation? https://hbr.org/2023/08/are-your-ads-funding-disinformation?ref=disinfodocket.com #misinformation

Russia-Linked Actors Leverage New and Old Tactics in Influence Operations Targeting Online Conversations About NATO Summit https://graphika.com/reports/summit-old-summit-new?ref=disinfodocket.com #misinformation #disinformation

How is Meta’s news ban affecting communications amid Canada wildfires? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/how-is-meta-news-ban-affecting-communications-amid-canada-wildfires-facebook?ref=disinfodocket.com #meta #facebook #misinformation #disinformation

GAN-tastic catfishing: When social media accounts with artificially generated faces build entirely fictional lives on Twitter, they are sometimes widely accepted as real people https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/gan-tastic-catfishing?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #misinformation #disinformation

Where now in the danse macabre of covid-19 and misinformation? https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1884?ref=disinfodocket.com #misinformation #disinformation

How Russian pro-war Telegram channels addressed the Wagner mutiny https://dfrlab.org/2023/08/17/how-russian-pro-war-telegram-channels-addressed-the-wagner-mutiny/?ref=disinfodocket.com #misinformation #disinformation

People share #misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/people-share-misinformation-because-of-social-medias-incentives-but-those-can-be-changed/?ref=disinfodocket.com #disinformation #socialmedia

No evidence linking Facebook adoption and negative well-being: Oxford study https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/news/no-evidence-linking-facebook-adoption-and-negative-well-being-oxford-study/?ref=disinfodocket.com #Facebook #meta #tech #onlinesafety

Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.00879.pdf #misinformation #disinformation #tech #AI

By any memes necessary: Belief- and chaos-driven motives for sharing conspiracy theories on social media https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680231193514?ref=disinfodocket.com #misinformation #disinformation #academia