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Jon GrinspanOctober 10, 2024

How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers, disinformation, and the Civil War

Long before anyone was accused of being “woke,” the Wide Awakes used new news technology to rapidly construct a national movement.

Mark Coddington and Seth LewisAugust 14, 2024

Does legacy news help or hurt in the fight against election misinformation?

Plus: One way local newspapers covered the pandemic well, how rational thinking can encourage misinformation, and what a Muslim journalistic value system looks like.

Rest of World retracts an article criticizing WhatsApp misinformation tip lines in India

Gretel KahnMarch 27, 2024

How Latinos became a key target for misinformation in the U.S. election

Three experts in fact-checking and misinformation explain how false narratives are created and spread to Spanish-speaking audiences.

Magda OsmanJanuary 29, 2024

Disinformation often gets blamed for swaying elections, but the research isn’t so clear

“Our belief in free will is ultimately a reason so many of us back democracy in the first place. Denying it can arguably be more damaging than a few fake news posts lurking on social media.”

Sara TalposJanuary 18, 2024

Did the battle against “misinformation” go too far?

The pandemic brought a massive effort to limit the spread of bad health information. Did it do more harm than good?

AI will democratize disinformation

“This is not limited to audio and video tools. Text-generation tools like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have incredibly poor defenses against producing misinformation.” Matt Skibinski

Joshua BentonNovember 6, 2023

How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?

“At the time of this writing, it is difficult to avoid the realization that one side of politics — mainly in the U.S. but also elsewhere — appears more threatened by research into misinformation than by the risks to democracy arising from misinformation itself.”

Madeleine BairOctober 24, 2023

What El Tímpano learned training 100+ Latino immigrants on disinformation defense

COVID-19 wasn’t the most common issue that workshop participants brought up. Neither was politics. What was? Consumer fraud.

Joshua BentonJanuary 10, 2023

Good news: Misinformation isn’t as powerful as feared! Bad news: Neither is information.

To people who publish facts, it’s appealing to think of them as powerful. But people’s belief systems go a lot deeper than facts.