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Pause. Take Care Before You Share

PAUSE. TAKE CARE BEFORE YOU SHARE!The virus of misinformation is, if not more dangerous than pandemics! Misinformation spreads fast around the world and can be passed unintentionally from one person

25/08/2022 No Comments

Why Debunking a Misinformation Can Make People Believe It

Debunking misinformation could cause people to remember it better and to remember it as being true even after they’re shown corrective information that’s supposed to debunk it due to the

05/08/2022 No Comments

Underground Online Marketplaces and Tools

Since early 2020 we have been working to expose how Russia has weaponized conspiracy theories. The same tools and techniques are still in use and have been very effective. The following is explain

26/06/2022 No Comments

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Public Opinion Manipulation Techniques: Photos Manipulation

Manipulated photos through photoshop or by other apps to change the information they convey is very common. It’s often used to manipulate the viewer and promote a particular agenda. Photo

16/05/2022 No Comments

Polarization

Users’ polarization and confirmation bias are key strategies in the misinformation campaigns on social media. Polarization actually leads to anger and sometimes to violence. Let’s have a look at the results

12/05/2022 No Comments

Creating Doubts

The tobacco industry has been creating doubts for decades: questioning the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of smoking to manipulate the public opinion in its favor. Public Relations Strategists

26/04/2022 No Comments

Understanding Russia’s Political Trolling Approach

Russian trolls and propaganda have been officially charged with boosting Donald Trump during the 2016 USA Presidential election, conspiracy theories around coronavirus, 5G, and accusations of Ukrainian leaders being Nazis, among other things.

22/04/2022 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Public Opinion Manipulation Techniques: The Strategy of Distraction

From election campaigns to the war in Ukraine, we have been observing the various techniques of public opinion manipulation used by multiple stakeholders. In the following series of articles, we

14/04/2022 No Comments

Should we regulate social media? What do you think?

Social media platforms are now among the most important forums for discussing urgent social problems, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 5G, COVID-19 and climate change. Techno-idealists continue to promise

07/04/2022 No Comments

Trust Is Good, Creating Trust Is Better

By Peter Metzinger On International Fact-Checking Day, a few thoughts on the roots of the evil that makes fact checks necessary in the first place. Why do we need fact checks

02/04/2022 No Comments

Campaigning for information literacy

Campaigning for information literacy

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