Early and often: Can real-time intervention by trusted authorities help stop a tsunami of disinformation?

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dc.contributor.advisorNelson, Deborahen_US
dc.contributor.authorZeitvogel, Karinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentJournalismen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-12T05:54:06Z
dc.date.available2018-09-12T05:54:06Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractA tsunami of disinformation is washing over the world, with social media helping it to spread quickly and widely. The purveyors of disinformation use it to press their agenda by adding untruths where previously there were none, fabricating stories, reporting them out of context, or doctoring images to promote their message. In the past, disinformation has been a prelude to and run concurrently with other attacks, including cyber and conventional warfare, and when officials reacted to disinformation, they successfully slowed its flow but did not entirely stop it, and may not have “won” cyber or conventional battles. Researchers say even multiple corrections don’t fully stop disinformation, and sowing skepticism by forewarning of a probable disinformation campaign is the most successful way of staunching the flow. Tools have been developed to help detect disinformation rapidly but officials often don’t have a plan to track, correct or refute it.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2MW28J3W
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21272
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJournalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddisinformationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRussiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTwitteren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUS politicsen_US
dc.titleEarly and often: Can real-time intervention by trusted authorities help stop a tsunami of disinformation?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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