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13
Nov
2020

Rumor vs Reality

categories: digital citizenship, Digital literacy, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology, media literacy

https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol

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12
Nov
2020

Digital violence

categories: Digital literacy, Facebook, media literacy, social media, WhatsApp

https://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/digital-violence-olimpia-coral-s-fight-on-behalf-of-the-women-of-mexico-a-b1da72f2-b720-4102-849a-d5a02def7d58

The recently published report “Free to Be Online?” by Plan International found that more than half of the 14,000 girls and young women surveyed worldwide have experienced online harassment or abuse.

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11
Nov
2020

Steve Bannon misinformation

categories: Digital literacy, Facebook, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

Steve Bannon Caught Running Facebook Misinformation Network from r/technology

Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages on Facebook

https://gizmodo.com/steve-bannon-caught-running-a-network-of-misinformation-1845633004

the Bannon-related pages tended to publish content at the same time and linked to the Populist Press, an even more right-wing Drudge Report copycat trafficking in disproven election fraud claims.

“If 2016 was an accident,” Quran added, “2020 has been negligence.”

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11
Nov
2020

From Steve Bannon To Millennial Millie

categories: Digital literacy, information literacy, media literacy, social media, YouTube

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933235773/from-steve-bannon-to-millennial-millie-facebook-youtube-struggle-with-live-video

nearly 300,000 others kept an eye on the YouTube channel of 29-year-old Millie Weaver, a former correspondent for the conspiracy theory website Infowars, who offered right-wing analysis to her followers in a live-stream that carried on for almost seven hours the day after the election.

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fake news
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10
Nov
2020

Chief Disinformation Officer

categories: academic library, Digital literacy, educational technology, gamification, gaming, information literacy, information technology, media literacy, technology literacy

“Trying to debunk misinformation after it has spread is like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. By pre-bunking, we aim to stop the spread of fake news in the first place,” said Dr Sander van der Linden, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making lab and senior author of the new study.Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy: A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics like trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation from r/science

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/game-combats-political-misinformation-by-letting-players-undermine-democracy

Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy

The free-to-play Harmony Square is released to the public today, along with a study on its effectiveness published in the Harvard Misinformation Review

It has been created by University of Cambridge psychologists with support from the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center and Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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22
Oct
2020