Your GDI Read Out: Weekly Reading List
This week, we’re sharing articles on the benefits of a free press and the threat that disinformation poses to the 2020 US census. Our team has also been reading about the latest…
Your GDI Read Out: Weekly Reading List
What are deepfakes and how do they differ from other forms of manipulated video? What are the steps platforms are taking to reduce content that they consider harmful? This week, we’ve been…
Disinformation is an Online Harm
Disinformation has been used as a tool to weaponise mass influence and disseminate propaganda. It has brought extreme fallout for economies, politics and societies around the globe. No country is immune from…
Your GDI Read Out: Weekly Reading List
This week GDI staff members have been tracking a range of news developments tied to our efforts to combat disinformation - both upstream (at the source) and downstream (the factors that spread…
Disinformation and Networked Conflicts: Fifth Generation Warfare
The landscape of today’s disinformation conflicts was envisaged over 20 years ago by visionary authors and thinkers, including retired US Air Force Colonel Richard Szapranski. In 1995, Szapranski forecasted that successful information…
Your GDI Read Out: Weekly Reading List
What do Iranian bots, online extremists and YouTube algorithms have in common? Read more below about these and other instances of disinformation efforts that different media outlets have profiled in the last…
Your GDI Read Out: Weekly Reading List
With the EU elections behind us, there has been some news buzz around looking back at what happened and the disinformation actors allegedly involved. This has included shining a light on the…
Mapping the Anti-5G Campaign
Fifth generation (5G) wireless technology has become a flashpoint of conflict dominating our news and social feeds - from the EU to the US. Arguments against 5G range on everything from health…
Measuring Up: Designing the Index
Disinformation is now a firmly established strategy to counter facts and shift people’s opinions. Major elections around the world have been overshadowed by disinformation campaigns, be it fake news going viral through…
Your GDI Read Out: Weekly Reading List
There has been a huge spotlight in the media on the risks of disinformation ahead of the EU Elections which kick-off on 23 May. In the run-up to the vote, investigative journalists…
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