updated 11d ago
From Our Fellows: Envisioning a Healthy Information Ecosystem
- The proliferation of disinformation online has seeped into all aspects of life. Elections, the pandemic, and now, a war are all targets of organized campaigns to obfuscate or even rewrite truth and facts. At the same time, censorship of vulnerable populations is on the rise, only further restricting the flow of information.
from Wielding Blockchain Technology Against Disinformation by Money Reimagined
Emilie Kormienko added
- Scholars, activists, technologists and even presidential candidates have all proposed data governance reforms to address the social ills generated by the technology industry.
from Data as Property? | Phenomenal World by Salomé Viljoen
sari added
This overfocus on the substance — misinformation, disinformation, propaganda — and the fight over content moderation (and regulatory remedies like revising Section 230) makes us miss opportunities to examine the structure — and, in turn, to address the polarization, factional behavior and harmful dynamics that it sows.
from How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds by Renée DiResta
sari added
As builders of a new digital society, we must be equipped with an even more inclusive and visionary concept of what "public" and "good" can mean.
from Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods by Sam Hart
Keely Adler added
Opinion | What’s the best way to fight viral disinformation? Look to South Florida.
Aidan S Marcuss added
Viral misinformation