3 weeks ago
Could a dedicated disinformation beat help address the infodemic in Canada?
From vaccine hesitancy to the rise of far-right extremism, COVID-19 has mainstreamed conspiracy theories at an astonishing rate, with devastating impacts — but the handful of reporters and researchers addressing them in Canada say they don’t have the resources to respond to the country’s dis- and misinformation crisis alone
Browsing Disinformation
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Join The Markup for a panel discussion on measuring the spread of deceptive information, and learn about multiple ways to assess tech platform behavior.
Journalists for Human Rights Mis/Disinformation Training
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I’m currently working with Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) on a project to engage and train media practitioners in southern Ontario on tools and techniques to understand and investigating mis/disinformation in the news.
The workshop covers a background on the…
2 years ago
Operation Infektion 2.0? State-sponsored journalism and disinformation
How do democracies deal with disinformation that is indistinguishable from journalism?
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