Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're pretty bad at it? Th...
Wikipedia to protect its main 2020 election page with expanded measures, like stopping new editors from making edits, that it has used to stop COVID-19 misinfo
The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing election with its information and reputation intact. Tweets: @krmaher , @raju , @backchnnl , @mr_dudders , @ar...
QAnon followers are hijacking #SaveTheChildren, an anti-human-trafficking movement, and joining parenting Facebook Groups in order to gain new followers
whether people realize it or not Daniel Funke / PolitiFact : QAnon, Pizzagate conspiracy theories co-opt #SaveTheChildren Erica Evans / Deseret News : How a recent surge in concern about child sex tra...
Global Disinformation Index study finds that adtech companies spend ~$235M per year running ads on sites found by fact-checkers to publish misinformation
Poynter : Tweets: @zimbalist , @dpfunke , @karlbode , and @michellemanafy See also Mediagazer Tweets: Michael Zimbalist / @zimbalist : About those ad-supported disinformation sites: Google served abo...
Analysis of 14M tweets from May 2016 and March 2017 found bots accounted for 34% of shares of articles from low-credibility sources but were only 6% of accounts
Daniel Funke / Poynter : Tweets: @brendannyhan See also Mediagazer Tweets: Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : The latest on bot prevalence and effects: -Bots increase exposure to negative & inflammatory...
How several fact-checking sites around the world approach harassment and death threats following partnerships with Facebook to stem misinformation
The PDF file is 299 pages long. It has a table of contents, infographics and a statement of intent. And it has extensive details … Tweets: @antoniogm , @dpfunke , @mat , and @juliacarriew Tweets: An...
A look at the challenges of fact-checking on China's WeChat, which has ~1B MAUs, and the handful of “guerrilla” projects trying to debunk fake news
Grace Xu doesn't make any money fact-checking. She's not a journalist and she has a day job as a computer scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tweets: @poynter , @dpfunke , @dpfunke , and @dpfunk...
A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia
Daniel Funke / Poynter :