Disinformation - Online - Dangerous

GreenPolicy360: The development of science over the ions is, as the song goes, "a long and winding road" but here we are in the 21st Century and still facing ancient themes. The "Scientific Revolution", as it was called, was based on ancient knowledge -- and arguments -- that carried throgh the "Middle Ages" and led to "The Enlightenment", "The Age of Reason", and in Europe the end of "Feudalism", and beginning of "Mercantalism", "Colonialism" and "Capitalism." The social and political revolutions, across the world in the 1800s brought on conflict and wars into the 1900s and a new "Internet Age", connecting nations across our planet marks the beginning of a new electronic, computer era.

Within the computer, information networking of the Internet "World Wide Web", many of the old arguments carry on with computer-assisted reach, engagement, and persuasive power.

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Disinformation / Misinformation

The Bane of the Early Internet Age

Misinformation... Disinformation... Deeply Damaging Democracy

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/cheap-speech-fake-news-democracy.html

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Fact-Checking, 'Facts Count'

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80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)

60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)

37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)

MediaWise for Teens

PolitiFact via Poynter

Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network

Poynter Int'l List

Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News

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WWW Origins-Foundation, established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web" - WebFoundation.org

March 2017 Open Letter from Berners-Lee on Threats to the Web

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From the Aspen Institute:

• https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/aspendigital/

• https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Get-to-Know-Aspen-Digital.pdf

• https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/global-disinformation-vs-democracy-confronting-the-existential-threat/

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From Micah Sifry:

April 2021

On Anti-disinformation work

In the last five years of a whole cottage industry (has been built) of research centers, academic studies, journalistic conferences and tech summits on disinformation.

In 2017, the CUNY School of Journalism (now called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY) launched a $14 million News Integrity Initiative with primary funding from Facebook, with the goal of “helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.” That same year, the Omidyar Network announced $100 million in funding for journalism outlets and to organizations combating hate speech and the spread of false information. The Annenberg Innovation Lab launched a “Truthiness Collaborative” to “advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem.

Now in just the last year, there’s a plethora of new organizations with names like The Forum on Information and Democracy, Digital Citizens Alliance, the Coalition for a Safer Web, and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

• https://theconnector.substack.com/

More from Micah:

The disruptive moment is over: Micah Sifry on why the internet hasn’t transformed politics (yet) (2014)

To Change Voters’ Sympathies, It’s Time to Go Deep

• https://civichall.org/civicist/a-personal-message-from-civic-hall-co-founder-micah-sifry/

• https://micahsifry.medium.com/organizing-in-the-digital-age-lessons-from-the-indivisible-movement-1030fb4d4386

• https://www.amazon.com/Big-Disconnect-Internet-transformed-Politics/dp/1522663126

• https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/407843.Micah_L_Sifry

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation

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Fighting Back: Time for Facts and Science

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Burning_the_Data.png

Digital360

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen | Digital Citizen
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights | Digital Rights
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Beginning_of_WWW_89_TimBerners-Lee_CERN.jpg | World Wide Web

GreenPolicy360 & Science

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg | Measure-to-Manage
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | Merchants of Doubt
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)
• http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science

Climate Denial / Misinfo

• https://climatefeedback.org | ClimateFeedback.org
• https://climatecrocks.com/ | Climate -- Crocks, Denial, Facts & Vids
• https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/y3z737/the-12-arguments-every-climate-denier-uses-and-how-to-debunk-them | Debunking Climate Denial
• http://www.desmogblog.com/ | Desmog Blog
• http://www.desmogblog.com/about | Desmog & Climate Change
• http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database | Denier Database
• http://www.desmogblog.com/slamming-the-climate-skeptic-scam | Desmog Perspective
• https://www.beforetheflood.com/explore/the-deniers/top-10-climate-deniers/ | Denier Favorites
• https://www.drillednews.com/post/fake-science-is-a-real-danger | Drilled - Corp Sponsored
• https://grist.org/series/skeptics/ | Grist on Skeptics
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:PEN_America-Earth_Institute-Columbia_U..._How_to_defend_yourself_online.jpg | PEN America, Envir Writing, How to Defend Yourself and Your Work Online
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_of_the_Humans,_a_documentary_film | Re: Misinfo of 'Planet of the Humans' Documentary
• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Denier_Talking_Points_--_and_Rebuttals | Rebutting Climate Denier Talking Pts
• https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php | Skeptical Science Site
• https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm | Skeptical - Attacks on Climate Models
• https://www.snopes.com/collections/climate-change-denial-debunked/ | Snopes on Climate
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)

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