Disinformation campaigns by states, economic opportunists, and the misinformed themselves threaten to erode the common understandings, shared identities, and empirical bedrock that underlies our collective decisionmaking. While disinformation campaigns have used mass media to spread for many years, social media platforms have proven an exceptionally hospitable environment for the proliferation of falsehoods. Those looking to limit disinformation’s effect on society and bolster truth in media have likewise turned to technology to help keep up with the volume and precision of constantly evolving disinformation campaigns.
En este proceso electoral, las noticias falsas tendrán cada vez más presencia en la red e influencia entre los lectores. Verificado 2018 nace con el objetivo de enfrentar estas noticias malintencionadas o imprecisas y desmentirlas con información rigurosa y confirmada. Es un proyecto de periodismo colaborativo en el que participan más de 60 medios, universidades y organizaciones civiles y estará en funcionamiento durante todo el proceso electoral.
The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.
Trump's not very concerned about accuracy in his tweets — so we will be.
a map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press