For next Tuesday:
Dunaway, ch. 5. (chapter 7 if you have the 10th ed.)
ACCIDENTAL LEAKS
- Papers shifting to digital
- Reporting routines: MSM journalists on social media
Dunaway: "the impression of a widely used, rich menu of choices is often more a mirage than reality." Meaning?
"Chewing"
Impact of social media: speeding up virality. Even Swift noticed the virality of falsehood: "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect."
Misinformation and Disinformation
Malinformation: doxxing, revealing the name of someone who could be at risk: Trump Jr. and the Ukraine whistleblower
Disinformation Dozen: Just 12 anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti‑vaccine content on social media platforms.
A 2023 disinformation loop: The Pelosi attack
Image and Sound
Disinformation, example from Clair Wardle:
Take, for example, the edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that circulated this past May. It was a genuine video, but an agent of disinformation slowed down the video and then posted that clip to make it seem that Pelosi was slurring her words. Just as intended, some viewers immediately began speculating that Pelosi was drunk, and the video spread on social media. Then the mainstream media picked it up, which undoubtedly made many more people aware of the video than would have originally encountered it.
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