The Disinformation Project

Voters beware! Slow down. Pause before you post. Consider that some posts in your feed are designed to manipulate and deceive in order to divide. “…the IC has been observing foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans. The IC expects these activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states.”

Voters beware! Excellent report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence on foreign influence campaigns targeting US voters. Be informed. Don’t confuse unverified social media content for serious news. Disregard suspicious posts. Too salacious to ignore? Probably is fake! Disregard and move on. Don’t engage with manipulative content. https://lnkd.in/dxTF9uWw

Excellent reporting on Russian #disinformation tactics, techniques and procedures. These tactics are well understood by academics and researchers yet far too few people are getting the message - or changing their online behaviors. Awareness is Job One! https://lnkd.in/dxZgq3Jz

#Disinformation seeks to undermine the resilience of society by creating confusion and chaos through contradictory information and a blurring of facts and fiction. Learn more about the dangers of disinformation: https://lnkd.in/dqKbUCqY #ThinkBeforeYouShare

We are happy to share this summary on countering #disinformation from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Academies facilitated an excellent, multi-disciplinary event centered on solutions. We shared our views on the education panel. If you missed this important event you can read all about it here! 👇Thank you to Kate Starbird and the brilliant panelists, facilitators, and staff! Together we can #buildabetterdigitalfuture https://lnkd.in/dzTq2CVJ

Awareness is Job One.

Disinformation awareness (actors and tactics), civics education, media and digital literacy, and critical thinking skills work together to defeat #disinformation. We need to prepare young people for life and politics in the digital information age. Let’s make a #betterdigitalfuture. Awareness is Job One.

You wouldn’t give kids keys to a car without first giving them driving lessons, so why are we letting kids access the internet and social media without first providing them with #MediaLiteracy education? Watch our new PSA 'Before you hand over keys to the internet…' & help us spread the message: #MediaLiteracy is an essential skill that should be taught to all K-12 students! How you can help: 📺  Share our PSA on your social media channels ⚖  Reach out to your policymakers & ask them to prioritize media literacy education in your state 💜  Support our work with a donation - every bit helps as we advocate to get media literacy into more classrooms: https://lnkd.in/ePSMVSZT https://lnkd.in/eAEAJkxQ

82% of middle school students could not tell the difference between an online news story and an advertisement 😲 You might think "yikes!" but how can we expect kids to know something that we're not teaching them?! From our CEO, Erin McNeill “Media literacy is literacy in the 21st century, and we don’t start teaching literacy in high school...It’s an essential life skill that has to be built on a foundation, not rolled out at the last minute.” This is why we're working to get #MediaLiteracy education into K-12 schools across the country - our kids need to be taught these necessary skills. Read more in the recent American Psychological Association article ⬇

Awareness is job 1. Informed consumers are smart consumers. #buildabetterdigitalfuture.