The goal: to have a comprehensive data driven understanding how multi-generational trauma shapes implicit bias in institutions, groups, familes etc and how it intertwines DK in community leaders.
So that we can work together to address these issues together!
RMIT's Digital Hostility and Disinformation Lab has a new website! Check out our upcoming events, recordings from previous events, and our current research, including surveys. I'm helping out with the survey on LGBT experiences with online abuse.
"Our results show that presenting the success rate of previous raters works as an incentive to evaluate information more accurately, but that monetary bonuses provide the strongest increase in accuracy, and that only remuneration is associated with a greater use of external resources (e.g., search engines) that have been shown to meaningfully improve evaluation of new content."
"This year, #democracy is on the ballot. Over 60 countries... home to nearly 4 billion people — half the globe’s population — will hold national elections, meaning more people will vote in 2024 than ever before in history.
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Proton VPN will make #VPN servers available for free two weeks before elections in several countries with histories of #misinformation and #censorship. These servers will... be free for a week after the elections as well." https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-servers-before-elections/ v @protonmail#Election
The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.
This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.
New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.
‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.
A "medical freedom" momfluencer is using a clip from "The Brady Bunch" to rally her followers against the MMR vaccine. In the episode "Is There a Doctor in the House," all the Brady kids get measles and enjoy a few days off school. Cases of measles are on the rise in the U.K. and U.S. and Natasha Crowcroft, who advises the WHO on MMR, says the disease's seriousness shouldn't be dismissed since even healthy kids in high-income countries with good healthcare have a one in 1,000 chance of dying from it. “If I said one in 1,000 people who eat this yogurt would get a severe allergy, that product would be off the market,” she told Salon.
Hits different in these aerosolized pandemic times:
"There is nothing scarier than finding yourself in a position where people are saying crazy shit and everyone around you is simply nodding their heads in agreement and acting like it is totally normal."
Finally available #OpenAccess! 🚨New study🚨 “Missing Voices” examines how misinformation-susceptible individuals from historically excluded & marginalized communities engage with science topics and interpret #misinformation and corrective intervention strategies.
Exciting news! RMIT's DERC has "soft launched" their new lab on Digital Hostility and Disinformation. Our new lab is working on panels, conferences, and publications. Tropics we're exploring include online abuse and hate speech, misinformation, and solutions for platform misuse.
The LGBTQ+ study I'm assisting with for the lab is still open and can be found on my profile!
Is this the future of social media? It certainly is better than Silicon Valley/commercial-surveillance disinformation platforms by orders of magnitude, yes...
...but personally, I have a different view.
I recommend reading the "Public Service Internet" manifesto. It was a privilege to read it. This is one of my greater research interests as well.
Tl;dr: an internet infrastructure of the people, by the people, and for the people — including democratic governance, user representation (suffrage), and citizen co-ownership of resources. NOT government-owned.
Of course there are some bits I disagree with too.
One could argue Mastodon/Fediverse is like that... but not truly (I like the place though). Here's why →
Despite the proliferation of #misinformation research, there has been no organizing framework guiding its study. The MRRM is my attempt to offer a framework for understanding the antecedents to and consequences of misinfo recognition (or lack thereof). @commodon@communicationscholars#commodon
There is a satirical blog post from 13 years ago going around again. I'm surprised i hadn't seen it before - almost believed it. It was written to call attention to the horrific crimes of Netanyahu, but a Pakistani outlet reported it as fact and it's being circulated.
In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and—ultimately—mobilize us.
Reposting the absolute embarrassment that the Escandon et al. article (the authors of which included some, let's say, less than rigorous virologists) sucked in some nonsense misinformation 😆
Misinformation thread (sorry, it's on Tw^D^D err X)