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. 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 up to all of us to fight back against disinformation.

As Kate Starbird and her research team at University of Washington pointed out a few years ago, producing disinformation is a collaborative process. And so is fighting back!

Fortunately, there are more and more grassroots projects where people work together as a team to monitor and respond to disinformation. Here’s a few:

• Common Cause’s Action Team focuses on election-related disinformation. They have an excellent short training session, and well-organized teams of volunteers on multiple social networks.
• Stop Online Violence Against Women’s Stop Digital Voter Suppression project does online monitoring, partnering with Black Women’s Roundtable, MoveOn, and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
• Indivisible’s Truth Brigade is a response network that does regular campaigns and mini-campaigns.

Part of the series 5 Ways to Fight Disinformation this Election Season.

1. Think before you engage or share
2. Educate yourself — and your friends and family
3. Share accurate information about the election
4. Report disinformation when you see it
5. Join a grassroots disinfo-fighting campaign