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Nov 18, 2020

How Disinformation Destroyed Democracy at SXSW!!!!

Community voting for the 2021 SXSW conference ends this Friday! Here’s the panel Shireen Mitchell, Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D. and I are proposing. Update: it got rejected, of course. No surprises there. You can vote for the panel at https://bit.ly/DisinfoSXSW. Please help get the word out! …

Disinformation

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How Disinformation Destroyed Democracy at SXSW!!!!
How Disinformation Destroyed Democracy at SXSW!!!!
Disinformation

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Published in Fighting disinformation in the 2020 election

·Nov 2, 2020

Think before you engage or share

Part 1 of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. …

Disinformation

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Think before you engage or share
Think before you engage or share
Disinformation

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Published in Fighting disinformation in the 2020 election

·Nov 2, 2020

Educate yourself — and your friends and family — about disinformation

Part 2 of 5 Ways to Fight Disinformation this Election Season As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. …

Disinformation

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Educate yourself — and your friends and family — about disinformation
Educate yourself — and your friends and family — about disinformation
Disinformation

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Published in Fighting disinformation in the 2020 election

·Nov 2, 2020

Share accurate information about the election

Part 3 of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. …

Disinformation

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Share accurate information about the election
Share accurate information about the election
Disinformation

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Share accurate information about the election

Part 3 of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season

5 Ways to Fight Disinformation, with a circle around “Share accurate information about the election”

As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. …

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Published in Fighting disinformation in the 2020 election

·Nov 2, 2020

Report disinformation when you see it

Part 4 of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season One of the biggest challenges about disinformation is that it often flies below the radar — making it hard to respond. So when you see disinformation, report it! Here’s a few ways: ReportDisinfo.org is an easy-to-use site to…

Disinformation

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Report disinformation when you see it
Report disinformation when you see it
Disinformation

2 min read

Report disinformation when you see it

Part 4 of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season

5 Ways to Fight Disinformation, with a circle around “Report disinformation when you see it”

One of the biggest challenges about disinformation is that it often flies below the radar — making it hard to respond. So when you see disinformation, report it! Here’s a few ways:

ReportDisinfo.org is an easy-to-use site to…

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Published in Fighting disinformation in the 2020 election

·Nov 2, 2020

Join a grassroots disinfo-fighting campaign

Part 5of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. …

Disinformation

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Join a grassroots disinfo-fighting campaign
Join a grassroots disinfo-fighting campaign
Disinformation

2 min read

Join a grassroots disinfo-fighting campaign

Part 5of 5 Ways You can Fight Disinformation this Election Season

5 Ways to Fight Disinformation, with a circle around “Join a grassroots disinfo-fighting campaign”

As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. …

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Published in Fighting disinformation in the 2020 election

·Nov 1, 2020

5 Ways to Fight Disinformation This Election Season

As we move on to the next stage of “Election Season”, it’s more important than ever to guard against disinformation. False information can prevent people from voting, cast doubt on the credibility of the election process, and potentially even be used as the basis for a coup attempt. So it’s…

Disinformation

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5 Ways to Fight Disinformation this Election Season.
5 Ways to Fight Disinformation this Election Season.
Disinformation

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Published in A Change Is Coming

·Oct 25, 2020

Disinformation Week of Action and the #DisruptDisinfo Block Party

MediaJustice and the Disinfo Defense League are kicking off their Week of Action Against Disinformation with the #DisruptDisinfo Twitter Block Party Monday October 26 at 1 PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern. …

Disinformation

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Week of Action Against Disinformation and the #DisruptDisinfo Block Party
Week of Action Against Disinformation and the #DisruptDisinfo Block Party
Disinformation

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Published in A Change Is Coming

·Apr 16, 2020

Lessons from the Past: What Zoom can learn from Microsoft

Summary: In the early 2000s, Microsoft faced challenges similar to the ones Zoom’s looking at today, and successfully turned things around. Some of the key lessons from Microsoft’s experiences include Think broadly about “trust” Make trust the product teams’ responsibility Fix your privacy practices and policies Do threat modeling Use…

Microsoft

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What Zoom can learn from Microsoft
What Zoom can learn from Microsoft
Microsoft

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Published in #resist!

·Apr 3, 2020

Using Zoom for activism? Think about security!

Last updated: August 30. Originally published April 2. Zoombombing remains a problem; see Prof. Anima Anandkumar’s thread about her KDD keynote from late August. If you’re using Zoom, the Global Forum for Media Development’s “Zoom-bombing” prevention & resources guide has some solid recommendations, and so does How to Keep Uninvited…

Zoom

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Using Zoom for activism? Think about security!
Using Zoom for activism? Think about security!
Zoom

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