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Daily Briefing: GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DISINFORMATION: REFRAMING REALITY

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century:  Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023
Tablet’s Grand Opus on the Anti-Disinformation Complex:  Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023
Disinformation In the Age of ChatGPT:  Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023
ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:  Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, WSJ, Feb. 24, 2023


 

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Netanyahu Accuses Israeli Media of Spreading ‘Fake News’ on Judicial Reform Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 13, 2023 — The “biased” media channels are engaging in an “unprecedented attack on the government” and are intentionally spreading false information about the government’s proposed judicial reforms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged during a statement to the press at the beginning of the Likud’s Monday afternoon’s faction meeting in the Knesset.
 
“The Basis For Democratic Discourse In the Age of Social Media Is Skewed”:  Heinrich Boll Stiftung, Mar. 4, 2022 — A conversation with Ori Kol, Co-Founder of the Israeli disinformation watchdog FakeReporter, about social media, democracy and the dynamics of public discourse in the digital age in Israel, and beyond.
 
The RESTRICT Act Would Restrict a Lot More Than TikTok: J.D. Tuccille, Reason, Mar. 31, 2023 — Even if you believe that governments should be in the business of banning things such as popular communications tools, the details of the effort to eject TikTok from the United States should give you pause. 
 
Disinformation and the Role of Influencers in Times of Crisis Aspen institute, 2023 — Influencers and content creators on social media have gained a prominent role in today’s information environment as opinion makers and agenda setters. They are no longer solely relevant in the communication and marketing strategies of companies but are also gaining importance in the political information ecosystem. 
 

Digital Citizen Initiative – Online Disinformation and Other Online Harms And Threats: Govt of Canada, Mar. 20, 2023-– A strong democracy relies on Canadians having access to diverse and reliable sources of news and information so that they can form opinions, hold governments and individuals to account and participate in public debate.

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