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Combating Misinformation
Combating Misinformation
Combating Misinformation
Combating Misinformation
As in past years, the 2024 election season will attract a flood of mis- and disinformation. False claims have eroded trust in elections and provoked a wave of anti-voter laws. The list below is by no means exhaustive. It provides some useful information about recognizing and halting the spread of misinformation.
General resources on misinformation:
- News Literacy Project
- NAACP’s toolkit on misinformation
- How to avoid spreading misinformation from Free Press
- How to Slow Misinformation in the 2024 Election - Q&A with Georgetown University faculty
Fact-checking and rumors as in the context of election misinformation:
- FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
- How to Detect and Guard Against Deceptive AI-Generated Election Information from the Brennan Center
- Election Rumors in 2024 Series from the Brennan Center
Accuracy and fact-checking guides:
- Verifying Online Information - Guide by First Draft, part of the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy
- Who’s Behind This Website? A Checklist from Columbia Journalism Review
- Journalism, Fake News, and Disinformation (a detailed guide from UNESCO)
- Visual verification tips from Witness.org
AI and election misinformation:
- Spotting the deep fakes in this year of elections from Reuters
- Trusting Video in the Age of Generative AI (linked to in the article above)
- AI and the 2024 elections - Featured article from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School; and the accompanying Webinar Video.
Bias:
- How to detect bias in news media from FAIR
- How cognitive biases make us vulnerable to disinformation from PEN
- Linking to this video on cognitive biases and disinformation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nazhjkdo6HA
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