Data at Rest 02x03: Disinformation

11/03/2020 53 min Temporada 2 Episodio 3
Data at Rest 02x03: Disinformation

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Data at Rest 02x03: Disinformation Charlie and Michael are joined by Professor Deen Freelon of UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media and UNC's Center for Internet, Technology, and Public Life, to discuss disinformation campaigns on the Internet and how to spot the warning signs that information might not be authentic. Plus: Potemkin villages! Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017 (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018 (Computational Propaganda Research Project) The Tactics & Trops of the Internet Research Agency (New Knowledge) The Twitter Exploit: How Russian Propaganda Infiltrated U.S. News (Lukito, Wells, Yini, Zhang, Doroshenko, Kim, Su, Suk, Xia, Freelon; University of Wisconsin-Madison) Safecomputing.unc.edu Musical credit: Pixelland Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/