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The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now

2023/10/23
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The panel discusses how the Israel-Hamas war has seen a significant increase in disinformation, with platforms struggling to manage the volume and complexity of false information, including deepfakes and AI-generated content.

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Social media has been inundated with disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war — from a flood of graphic visual content, to unsubstantiated claims and opportunistic content generation (and monetization) by third parties to this conflict.

To make sense of this fog of war, we turn to a panel that brings together a reporter, a researcher and a former Facebook/Meta insider: Shayan Sardarizadeh) is a senior disinformation journalist with the BBC, Renée DiResta) is a research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Katie Harbath) spent 10 years as the public policy director at Facebook. Together, they unpack how we got here – and how we might seek clarity in a moment fogged by intense emotion, unfolding information and immense complexity.

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