Cole on TikTok - Disinformation in her family
This short video speaks to many people who lost family members, casualties of the disinformation war.
Information Literacy
Outrage Cycle: Cracker Barrel and its CEO Targeted Amidst Logo Controversy - Open Measures
This research shows that conservative media played a significant role in generating outrage over the restaurant's logo change, which makes it difficult for others to measure opinion generally about the change without this media framing
PeakMetrics Finds AI-Driven Bots Inflated Cracker Barrel Backlash - PeakMetrics
Standard Media Literacy lessons are a million miles behind the reality of the information ecosystem as it operates to day
Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures
There's an information literacy lesson in this for high school students, it only would some time to write the instructional narrative, cull the most effective data and slap the slides together. The lesson would be 1000% more useful that answering a question about <insert name> being a reliable source or not
Fox News aired more than 400 weekday segments mentioning trans athletes over just four months
A basic literacy of the media environment would include the understanding that the frequency of "hearing about" something provide no indication of it's importance or frequency in reality
The Threat of Conspiracy Theories in the Battle for the Cognitive Domain — A Consideration of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts at Regime Destruction Overseas — | List of Articles | International Information Network Analysis | SPF
A Theory of Information Warfare, Preparing for 2020
Written in July of 1997, this Air Force paper was an exceptionally accurate prediction of the domestic information war in the United States of 2025
Adversarial Narratives: A New Model for Disinformation - Report from Global Disinformation Index
Disrupting the business model of disinformation
Countering disinformation effectively - An Evidence Based Policy Guide
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Metabolic Profiling Research - Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Arthur Robinson's "Oregon Institute" originated in climate change denial in the late 1990s - could student's recognize that from looking at its website?
MisinfoDay Resource Library
The Grievance Studies Project and the Curruption of Scholaship
We engaged in a one-year immersive exploration to attempt to understand certain academic fields as “outsiders within” and test their scholarship at its highest levels.
Reply to Cheong and Jones: The role of science in responding to collective behavioral threats | PNAS
Reply to Cheong and Jones: The role of science in responding to collective behavioral threats
Stewardship of global collective behavior | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
The digital revolution and social media are changing the collective behavior of human beings faster than we can understand them - that is the conclusion of this report from the National Academy of Science that argues the study of this phenomenon be actively studied as a "crisis discipline"
Suspected AI – Academ-AI
Teachers use AI to create content to teach, while telling students not to use AI to create content to prove their learning, while academics use AI to create content in peer reviewed academic journals. This is a list of academic journal articles identified as created with AI
Home - CO2 Coalition
Climate Change deniers site is worthwhile for student testing of lateral reading skills
John Bohannon
Any serious exploration of media literacy should include an encounter with people like John Bohannon, a journalist who tests the scientific, peer-review, academic publishing industry, uncovering their systemic flaws in inaccuracies. If you heard scientific proof that chocolate helps you lose weight - he made it up and it was still published in peer-reviewed scientific journals
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Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act
While US social media companies abandon efforts to stop mis- and disinformation through fact checking, Singapore is enforcing laws countering false statements of fact
Children negotiating meanings in kidfluencers’ channels
Elementary school teachers looking for research supporting their impressions students are overexposed will find it here
Meet The Media Monsters
Fun approach for 4th and 5th graders
Psychological defence agency
Teachers and students teach and talk about media literacy perhaps without realizing how vital it is to national security. Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency might help them realize how little they know
Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide
This report offers a high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation. It distills core insights from empirical research and real-world data on ten diverse kinds of policy interventions, including fact-checking, foreign sanctions, algorithmic adjustments, and counter-messaging campaigns.
Structured expert elicitation on disinformation, misinformation, and malign influence: Barriers, strategies, and opportunities | HKS Misinformation Review
Inoculation Science - Video Resources - Truth Labs for Education
Engaging graphics, tight scripts and concise messages important for students to consider when browsing and researching
Home - The Trust Project
These 8 "Trust Indicators" can be used by teachers and students to assess the value of information posted on sites by using these indicators as a "Lens" in lateral reading activities
General Accounting Office Report - Opportunities and Threats to DOD’s National Security Mission
60 page summary of research, useful for teachers to quickly scan for language - how is the information environment affect national security? How do Department of Defense officials think, talk and act about information literact?
A global initiative to counter misleading and deceptive online discourse
Logically Facts helps counter misleading and deceptive online discourse about public health, public safety, election integrity, and national security by enabling platforms to operate in markets safely, responsibly, and compliantly.
Trust in Isolation: the Real Threat of Generative AI - The Global Disinformation Index
Taking humans out of the process and hiding sources behind text generation makes AI a greater threat in this stage of the information revolution
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Publishing high quality interdisciplinary research that examines misinformation from different perspectives, from its prevalence and impact to the effectiveness of possible interventions.
Harvard Business School Investigation Report Recommended Firing Francesca Gino | News | The Harvard Crimson