>-and information began to spring through showing it wasn't just about twitter, but an operation spanning all social media platforms.
Reminder:
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