Online Disinformation and Manipulation

This page has a collection of links for learning to understand and defend against online disinformation and manipulation campaigns.

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Renee DiResta

Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us | Renee DiResta Renee DiResta: Media and Disinformation: What’s At Stake for Democracy? Foreign Influence on Social Media [2018 Senate Intelligence Committee] Renee DiResta, Democracy: Fixing It is Up to Us at #PDF18

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Smarter Every Day

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213 The Manipulation of Twitter - Smarter Every Day 214 Who is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215 Disinformation on Reddit & How We Beat It Together - Smarter Every Day 232

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General / Other

Peter Pomerantsev "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible" [Book talk] China’s Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall Time: Here's What We Know So Far About Russia's 2016 Meddling [2019] Time: Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America [2017] Science: The spread of true and false news online Engagement with Deceptive Outlets Higher on Facebook Today Than Run-up to 2016 Election [2020] The Battle Against Disinformation Is Global Facebook greatest source of Covid-19 disinformation, journalists say [2020] A Dozen Experts with Questions Congress Should Ask the Tech CEOs — On Disinformation and Extremism [2021]

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