Why is there so much disinformation? And what can we do to protect ourselves?
Lastly, the role of hostile and deliberate disinformation tactics cannot be overlooked. Facebook estimates that during the 2016 US election, malicious content from the Russian
aimed at creating division within the American voting public reached 126 million people in the US and worldwide.This crisis of information is usually framed in terms of the diffusion of false information either intentionally or unwittingly . However this approach misses significant forms of propaganda, including techniques honed during the Cold War.did not involve communicating content that was “demonstrably false”.
Sadly even misinformation spread unwittingly can have tragic consequences. In 2020, following Donald Trump’s false claims that hydroxychloroquine showed “very encouraging results” against COVID-19 rapidly spread over social media,
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