Re: What’s Next for Digital Disinformation? [How to Silence Opposition]
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>“It Has to Stop” – Joe Biden Tells Social Media Companies to “Deal with” Covid “Misinformation and Disinformation” (VIDEO)
Reminder: Hewlett and Ford Foundations re: “Disinformation” Game Planning Retreat
[How to Silence Opposition]
Since the discussion took place, the Hewlett Foundation announced a $10 million commitment to support research on U.S. democracy’s digital disinformation problem.
And the Hewlett Foundation together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Charles Koch Foundation, Democracy Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and Omidyar Network, announced a new partnership with Harvard, Stanford and the Social Science Research Council to provide scholars with privacy-protected data access to advance the public’s [understanding of Facebook’s role in elections and democracy].
May 23, 2018
https://hewlett.org/library/whats-next-for-digital-disinformation-a-research-roadmap/
"Whether or not Facebook decides to reinstate former President Trump’s account in the coming months will likely have major consequences for Trump's political power and possible future campaign," NPR wrote on Twitter.
"Being on Facebook is crucial for modern-day political campaigns," NPR explains in the accompanying story. A Big Tech blackout would mean a drop in fundraising and "a significant revenue valve would be shut off for Trump, imperiling a 2024 presidential bid, if he decides to run again." This could also trickle down to negatively affect the midterm candidates he plans to endorse, they write.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-ripped-for-openly-admitting-big-tech-interference-in-elections
Interesting way of admitting how much election interference and election meddling against Republicans that our tech companies can do and have done!
May 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1390371779345010699
What’s Next for Digital Disinformation?
January 25, 2018:
Ford Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation convened a group of more than 50 scholars, think tank leaders, funders, and platform representatives to brainstorm key research questions and steps to address these concerns.
[Participants: pgs. 21-23] [(You) know [them].]
They focused on digital disinformation, political polarization, and research.
Reducing engagement with disinformation is complicated for many reasons.
Scaling disinformation is much easier than scaling anti-disinformation (e.g., fact-checking).
Disinformation uses memes and messages that scale quickly and attach to rising key words.
Countering and correcting these tactics requires much more work than disseminating disinformation (e.g., some experts suggest eight to 15 hours of work are needed to fact-check content that may take just five minutes to create).
“Changing whether, and how, people encounter disinformation is another area where research is needed. Interventions might involve identifying pieces of disinformation, or identifying problematic accounts, and either warning people or algorithmically reducing the visibility of disinformation.
It is important to figure out how to identify nefarious content quickly”
“Cooperate to trace users sharing disinformation across platforms”
“Can we develop protocols to identify people?”
https://hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Whats-Next-for-Digital-Disinformation-A-Research-Roadmap.pdf