#misinformationresearch — Public Fediverse posts

In a @Poynter article, MediaWise director Alex Mahadevan writes that despite the ongoing legal and political attacks that academic researchers studying mis- and disinformation have been facing, he's "hopeful knowing how determined academics are to keep up their work in 2024," including @uwcip co-founder @katestarbird

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/misinformation-trends-2023-predictions-2024/

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The Washington Post has two new stories citing a recently released rapid research report from my colleagues at the @uwcip examining the "new elites" of the X platform.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/x-twitter-elite-hamas-accounts-london-georgia/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-anniversary/

Here's our team's report from last week: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/10/20/new-elites-twitter-x-most-influential-accounts-hamas-israel/

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As @uwcip research scientist @mikecaulfield recently told @politifact in an interview, the "tools that researchers would generally use to answer a question like ‘is there more or less misinformation’ have been taken away" since X, formerly known as Twitter, made big changes earlier this year to restrict access to its API: https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/23/how-elon-musk-ditched-twitters-safeguards-and-prim/

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"No one has figured out the perfect way to respond to this phenomenon or how to react to a pile-on from conspiracy theorists," @zadrozny reports for NBC News. "But Tiffany Dover’s example might provide a road map — for what not to do." [1/2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/tiffany-dover-conspiracy-theorists-silence-rcna69401

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Sadly foot soldiers in the trenches of the global civil war over climate will not be able read the authors' full arguments, because another conflicted industry is dependent on a different form of degeneration.

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#ClimateBunkIndustry
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03466-0