Presentation Resources
Session 1
Session 2
Resources
Disinformation - General Resources
First Draft News – Training materials – Understand the Landscape of information disorder
First Draft News – Information Disorder, Part 1: The Essential Glossary
University of Oxford – Computational Propaganda Project
The Conversation – Conspiracy Theories
Center for Humane Technology – Nonprofit dedicated to humane and ethnical technology design and policy advocate. Highly recommended: Your Undivided Attention podcast.
Renee DiResta – Yale Review – Computational Propaganda – Make it Trend, Make it True
One of the best ways to learn about disinformation is to follow trustworthy sources who study online culture and propaganda. Below are Twitter accounts worth following — it’s worth getting a Twitter account just to follow these accounts:
@cward1e – Claire Wardle, Strategy Lead at FirstDraft News (want to learn about investigation – there are courses here)
@RVAWonk – Carolyn Orr, Behavioral Scientist and Reporter
@MelissaRyan – Melissa Ryan, Producer – Ctrl-Alt-Right-Delete (subscribe)
@noUpside – Renee DiResta – Stanford Internet Observatory – recommend reading her wisdom on how the antivaxxers use social media
@selectedwisdom – Clint Watts – Author, Reporter, MSNBC contributor
@BostonJoan – Joan Donovan, PhD – Research Director, Shorenstein Center at Harvard – also check out Joan’s Big If True series and subscribe to Meme War Weekly
@BrandyZadrozny – Brandy Sadrozny – Reporter, NBC
@conspirator0 – Conspirador Norteño – Data Scientist, Twitter researcher extraordinaire
Here is a link to a Twitter list that includes these accounts. Follow this list and then access this list to always get the latest on what people who are expert at disinformation are talking about. This is an easy way to follow them all and stay tuned in.
Newsletters
Newsletters are one of the best ways to keep in touch with the latest in the ever-evolving landscape of disinformation:
Meme War Weekly – weekly newsletter produced by the Technology and Social Change (TaSC) Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University (and subscribe)
ACRONYM – FWIW (For What It’s Worth) – a weekly newsletter tracking political spending and digital trends.
Video
Claire Wardle: More than Fake News – Understanding the Disinformation Ecosystem (2018)
Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” (2011)
Tristan Harris – How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day (2017) – video. Bonus: To better understand the effect that social media is having on our culture, check out The Center for Humane Technology, for which Tristan is a Founder, and particularly the Ledger of Harms.
Fact-Checking
These sites are a good first-stop for checking the veracity of a story you’re seeing:
Many fact-checking resources were initially developed for journalists, and available to anyone. The following are resources that teach you how to fact check:
Educator Resources
Below are resources that are cited in the Disinformation Literacy for Educators version of this workshop.
Self-Test
Can you spot the fakes?
First Draft News – Observation Challenge to test your eye for verification
New York Times – Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post?
Buzzfeed – Fake News Quiz
Social Media - Instructional Resources
Twitter Training Guide (pdf)