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.
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This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
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Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.
The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.