The New York Times: 3 chapters’ series on disinformation, fake news and propaganda
By ADAM B. ELLICK, ADAM WESTBROOK and JONAH M. KESSEL | Nov. 13, 2018 | 17:27
Governments from Pakistan to Mexico to Washington are woefully unequipped to combat disinformation warfare. Eastern European countries living in Russia’s shadow can teach us how to start fighting back, but only if our politicians decide to stop profiting from these tactics and fight them instea: https://nyti.ms/2z5zy0e
Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News
By ADAM B. ELLICK, ADAM WESTBROOK and JONAH M. KESSEL | Nov. 12, 2018 | 15:37
We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted — the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax — went viral in the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the “truth squad” that quashed it. For a bit.
The Seven Commandments of Fake News
By ADAM B. ELLICK, ADAM WESTBROOK and JONAH M. KESSEL | Nov. 13, 2018 | 14:16
The Pizzagate playbook: Same tactics, new technologies. How the seven rules of Soviet disinformation are being used to create today’s fake news stories. Pizza anyone?
Related:
- Article: Operation Infektion: A three-part video series on Russian disinformation
- Video: Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News
- Video: The Worldwide War on Truth
VIDEOS
An unworthy war? US/UK reporting on Yemen
Syria’s chemical attacks: Smoke and mirrors, truth and lies
British tabloids on Brexit: Eurosceptics or Eurohaters?
Faking the online debate on Iran
How the US media became the ‘enemy of the people’
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2018/11/media-enemy-people-181103130454315.html
Operation InfeKtion
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006210828/russia-disinformation-fake-news.html
LECTURES
DEMOCRATIC DEFENSE AGAINST DISINFORMATION (Atlantic Council) Report Launch Ambassador Daniel Fried in Madrid
THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL WARFARE: RUSSIA, THE WEST, AND THE COMING AGE OF GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPETITION (Brookings)
West v Russia: Propaganda war rages on
Disinformation, propaganda, misinformation and fake news: what is the difference
Short guide on the history of fake news & disinformation
http://felipesahagun.es/short-guide-on-the-history-of-fake-news-disinformation/
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/13/the-true-history-of-fake-news/
Foreign Affairs Report Countering Fake News
https://www.newsweek.com/fake-news-climate-change-donald-trump-science-study-vaccine-546835
Fake news: How can African media deal with the problem?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38883347?ocid=socialflow_twitter