Checking facts and fighting back: Why journalists should defend their profession
By Raymond J. Pingree, Brian Watson, Mingxiao Sui, Kathleen Searles, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Joshua P. Darr, Martina Santia, Kirill Bryanov
Published: December 10, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208600
Abstract
Bias accusations...
Chaos as a strategy: Putin’s “Promethean” Gamble
By Donald N. Jensen, Peter B. Doran, for CEPA
15 November 2018
Can Vladimir Putin’s nonlinear strategy succeed against the West? For all of Russia’s weaknesses as...
How to boost the Western response to Russian hostile influence operations
By Jakub Janda, for European View
Abstract
The Russian Federation has become a rogue state in international relations, invading and occupying the territories of three European...
Smearing Sweden: International Influence Campaigns in the 2018 Swedish Election
By Chloe Colliver, Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Applebaum, Jonathan Birdwell, for ISD
October 2018
This report presents the findings of a project that investigated foreign attempts to...
Nitin Agarwal, Kiran Kumar Bandeli. Examining strategic integration of social media platforms in disinformation...
By NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence
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Social media platforms are widely used for sharing information. Although social media use is generally benign,...
Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter
By Knight Foundation
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THIS STUDY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ANALYSES TO DATE ON HOW FAKE NEWS SPREAD ON TWITTER BOTH DURING AND AFTER...
Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst,...
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
Only 43 percent of Americans find it easy to distinguish opinion from news on digital news sites or social media,...
Fakes Debunked by the StopFake Project between 2014-2017: Narratives and Sources
This analytical report includes the results of research conducted by StopFake analysts based on archived data of debunked messages from Russian media.
The StopFake project...
Russia’s Use of Media and Information Operations in Turkey
By Katherine Costello, for RAND
Copyright: RAND Corporation
Availability: Web-Only
Pages: 19
DOI: 10.7249/PE278
Document Number: PE-278-A
Year: 2018
Series: Perspectives
Russian media have sought to undermine Turkey's political and security cooperation with...
Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it...
By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab
Forty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared...