Co-authored by Ty Gribble and Jacquie Moss 1: The Problem “Fake News” has become a highly discussed phenomenon, sparking concerns that society at large is awash with disinformation. However, empirical evidence suggests that fake news is a minuscule part of Americans’...
By Riley Galligher and Samantha Tanner This is part 6 of our series “A Guided Tour of Disinformation Policy”. To read the first part, click here. Crossover The structure of our guided tour has centered, until this point, around our three categories of...
By Riley Galligher and Samantha Tanner This is part 5 of our series “A Guided Tour of Disinformation Policy”. To read the first part, click here. Media Literacy As discussed in our policy framework section, our last disinformation policy category is Media...
Why do individuals accept mis- or disinformation? Specifically, why do individuals accept mis- and disinformation particularly related to anthropogenic climate change? Welcome to “Project Mizaru,” where we seek to answer these questions in the most rigorously informed...
By Riley Galligher and Samantha Tanner This is part 4 of our series “A Guided Tour of Disinformation Policy”. To read the first part, click here. Our Content Moderation category includes policies oriented towards preventing the production and dissemination...
By Riley Galligher and Samantha Tanner This is part 3 of our series “A Guided Tour of Disinformation Policy”. To read the first part, click here. Disinformation Policy: Identifying Landmarks In the interest of taking you on this guided tour of...