The document discusses concepts related to misinformation, hate speech, and their impacts. It defines key terms such as misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and information disorder. It explains how misinformation and hate speech can cause psychological harm to individuals, lead to riskier behaviors, and wrong decisions. At the societal level, they can increase polarization, extremism, and social conflicts. Regarding democracy, misinformation and hate speech can interfere with elections, decrease public trust, and destabilize democratic systems by skewing political discourse. Specific examples discussed include mob lynching in India related to child abduction rumors spread on WhatsApp and cow vigilante violence in India targeting Muslims.
Discarding confusion: Navigating Information Disorder in South Sudan211 Check
Discarding confusion: Navigating Information Disorder in South Sudan is a training presentation by Ghai Aketch Deng on Saturday 26th August 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM
Ghai Aketch Deng is a South Sudanese journalist, fact-checker, and researcher. He has used his fact-checking skills to debunk misinformation in South Sudan, both in the mainstream media and through his work at 211 Check. Passionate about using his skills to train youth on access to accurate information and to curb hate speech in online spaces. Through 211 Check, Deng engaged government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and prominent individuals to combat the dangers of information disorder. He is currently an African Union postgraduate scholar pursuing an MSc. in Governance and Regional Integration at the Pan African University, Yaounde-Cameroon.
Misinformation, Disinformation & Hate speech
Tackling Misinformation,
Disinformation, and Hate Speech:
Empowering South Sudanese Youth, a presentation by Emmanuel Bida Thomas a fact-checker at 211 Check a fact-checking and information verification platform in South Sudan dedicated to countering misinformation, disinformation and hate speech.
Tara, Fact Check Muna! (A Discussion on Information Pandemic and Fake News)Gab Billones
Here are my slides in Episode 2 of the Department of Education (DepEd) Philippines' Wellness Check Webinar Series on the topic of "Fighting the Infodemic."
Topics:
- Context: The Current Media Landscape and the Rise of Citizen Journalism
- The New Global Pandemic: Fake News and Disinformation and Reasons Why It Exists
- Disinformation vs Misinformation vs Mal-information
- Responsible Digital Citizenship and Practical Ways to Spot and Respond to Fake News
References:
1. How Media Landscape Is Changing (richmedia.com/richideas/articles/how-we-consume-media-is-changing)
2. Digital 2020: The Philippines (https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2020-philippines)
3. WATCH: What's wrong with clickbait headlines? (https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/fact-check/243857-video-tutorial-keep-clickbait-headlines-from-spreading)
4. https://www.webwise.ie/teachers/what-is-fake-news/
5. Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training (https://en.unesco.org/fightfakenews)
6. The future of fake news: don't believe everything you read, see or hear (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/26/fake-news-obama-video-trump-face2face-doctored-content)
7. Bellingcat Investigation Toolkit (Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit)
8. Fake News and Cyber Propaganda: The Use and Abuse of Social Media (https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/fake-news-cyber-propaganda-the-abuse-of-social-media)
9. Fake News and Cyber Propaganda: The Use and Abuse of Social Media (https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/fake-news-cyber-propaganda-the-abuse-of-social-media)
10. 5 ways to spot disinformation on your social media feeds (https://abcnews.go.com/US/ways-spot-disinformation-social-media-feeds/story?id=67784438)
11. During this coronavirus pandemic, ‘fake news’ is putting lives at risk: UNESCO (https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1061592)
12. "Fake News", Disinformation, and Propaganda (https://guides.library.harvard.edu/fake)
13. World trends in freedom of expression and media development: global report 2017/2018 (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000261065)
14. Fake news and the spread of misinformation: A research roundup (https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/internet/fake-news-conspiracy-theories-journalism-research/)
15. How to spot coronavirus fake news – an expert guide (https://theconversation.com/how-to-spot-coronavirus-fake-news-an-expert-guide-133843)
16. How to Talk to Your Facebook Friends about Fake News (https://www.theopennotebook.com/2017/02/21/how-to-talk-to-your-facebook-friends-about-fake-news/)\
Discarding confusion: Navigating Information Disorder in South Sudan211 Check
Discarding confusion: Navigating Information Disorder in South Sudan is a training presentation by Ghai Aketch Deng on Saturday 26th August 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM
Ghai Aketch Deng is a South Sudanese journalist, fact-checker, and researcher. He has used his fact-checking skills to debunk misinformation in South Sudan, both in the mainstream media and through his work at 211 Check. Passionate about using his skills to train youth on access to accurate information and to curb hate speech in online spaces. Through 211 Check, Deng engaged government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and prominent individuals to combat the dangers of information disorder. He is currently an African Union postgraduate scholar pursuing an MSc. in Governance and Regional Integration at the Pan African University, Yaounde-Cameroon.
Misinformation, Disinformation & Hate speech
Tackling Misinformation,
Disinformation, and Hate Speech:
Empowering South Sudanese Youth, a presentation by Emmanuel Bida Thomas a fact-checker at 211 Check a fact-checking and information verification platform in South Sudan dedicated to countering misinformation, disinformation and hate speech.
Tara, Fact Check Muna! (A Discussion on Information Pandemic and Fake News)Gab Billones
Here are my slides in Episode 2 of the Department of Education (DepEd) Philippines' Wellness Check Webinar Series on the topic of "Fighting the Infodemic."
Topics:
- Context: The Current Media Landscape and the Rise of Citizen Journalism
- The New Global Pandemic: Fake News and Disinformation and Reasons Why It Exists
- Disinformation vs Misinformation vs Mal-information
- Responsible Digital Citizenship and Practical Ways to Spot and Respond to Fake News
References:
1. How Media Landscape Is Changing (richmedia.com/richideas/articles/how-we-consume-media-is-changing)
2. Digital 2020: The Philippines (https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2020-philippines)
3. WATCH: What's wrong with clickbait headlines? (https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/fact-check/243857-video-tutorial-keep-clickbait-headlines-from-spreading)
4. https://www.webwise.ie/teachers/what-is-fake-news/
5. Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training (https://en.unesco.org/fightfakenews)
6. The future of fake news: don't believe everything you read, see or hear (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/26/fake-news-obama-video-trump-face2face-doctored-content)
7. Bellingcat Investigation Toolkit (Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit)
8. Fake News and Cyber Propaganda: The Use and Abuse of Social Media (https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/fake-news-cyber-propaganda-the-abuse-of-social-media)
9. Fake News and Cyber Propaganda: The Use and Abuse of Social Media (https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/fake-news-cyber-propaganda-the-abuse-of-social-media)
10. 5 ways to spot disinformation on your social media feeds (https://abcnews.go.com/US/ways-spot-disinformation-social-media-feeds/story?id=67784438)
11. During this coronavirus pandemic, ‘fake news’ is putting lives at risk: UNESCO (https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1061592)
12. "Fake News", Disinformation, and Propaganda (https://guides.library.harvard.edu/fake)
13. World trends in freedom of expression and media development: global report 2017/2018 (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000261065)
14. Fake news and the spread of misinformation: A research roundup (https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/internet/fake-news-conspiracy-theories-journalism-research/)
15. How to spot coronavirus fake news – an expert guide (https://theconversation.com/how-to-spot-coronavirus-fake-news-an-expert-guide-133843)
16. How to Talk to Your Facebook Friends about Fake News (https://www.theopennotebook.com/2017/02/21/how-to-talk-to-your-facebook-friends-about-fake-news/)\
Artificial Intelligence (AI)_ A Friend or Enemy in Combating Disinformation ...211 Check
Artificial Intelligence (AI):
A Friend or Enemy in Combating Disinformation in South Sudan is a presentation by Makur Majeng as a part of a webinar organised by Defyhatenow South Sudan 211 Check project with support from the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN)
Prof Vian Bakir on COVID-19 as a global risk issue, suffused with uncertainty. On an inadequate foundation of knowledge about the virus, and with high potential for societal mood swings, governments across the world are instructing their citizens to engage in profound and rapid behaviour change (e.g. lockdowns, social distancing, better hygiene) in what can be characterised as a post-truth universe. The World Health Organisation announced in mid-February 2020 that the new COVID-19 pandemic is accompanied by a ‘massive “infodemic” - an over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it’. This talk discusses the scale and character of COVID-19 false information, and considers a range of multi-stakeholder solutions available to solve the ‘wicked problem’ of eliminating the spread and impact of false information on COVID-19.
Election Misinformation and Online Threat TacticsMichelle Ferrier
Dr. Michelle Ferrier presented on online threats against journalists and the misinformation economy at the First Draft Misinformation Workshop at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University on March 5, 2020.
Mis/Disinformation and Election 2020: Verification and Monitoring Tools for J...Michelle Ferrier
This presentation was given as introduction to the First Draft Election 2020 workshop on verification and digital monitoring. It includes a mini-primer on "fake news" and how to spot it.
La INFODEMIA es un neologismo que expresa la sobreinformación que sobre un tema se genera, en algunos casos de forma precisa y en otros no, y que hace difícil a las personas encontrar fuentes fiables para encontrar orientación cuando se necesita. Este gran volumen de información de un tema específico en un corto periodo de tiempo origina una “infoxicación”, es decir, una intoxicación por información. Si esta intoxicación se asocia a una pandemia actual (como la COVID-19) el término infodemia guarda un razonable parecido, teniendo en cuenta que en el “totum revolutum” es campo sembrado para los dimes y diretes, para la rumorología, la información errónea y la manipulación de las noticias con intenciones dudosas. En la era de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación, de la Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0… y las que vengan, este fenómeno se amplifica a través de las redes sociales, ese patio de vecinos sin control, extendiéndose más y más rápido que un virus esta información inválida o tóxica: de ahí el término “viralización”.
Si juntamos los efectos del virus SARS-CoV-2 con los efectos de la viralización de las redes sociales, y teniendo en cuenta dos principios conocidos en la comunicación periodística (que una buena noticia no es noticia y que las falacias se difunden más rápido que las verdades), tenemos el cóctel perfecto para crear el caos, el miedo y la COVIDofobia.
Y para que conste la preocupación por la infodemia basta revisar el documento adjunto de la PAHO (Pan American Health Organization), miembro de la Wordl Health Organization, donde se exponen algunos datos de interés para conocer la dimensión de este problema: en el último mes se han volcado 361 millones de vídeos en YouTube en relación con el tema de la COVID-19 y cerca de 20.000 artículos sobre el tema en Google Scholar, así como 550 millones de tweets en un mes que incluían el término COVID-19 o pandemia.
Es crítico disponer del acceso a la información, pero en el momento adecuado y en el formato adecuado. Hoy todo gira sobre lo mismo. Desayunamos, comemos, merendamos, cenamos y hasta dormimos con la misma noticia, visto desde tantas perspectivas y con tantos autoproclamados expertos que ya nos sabemos a qué atenernos. En este ambiente de infodemia, donde campa a sus anchas la prensa amarillista y los que sientan cátedra con la osadía de su desconocimiento, no se pueden aplicar los principios de calma y coherencia tan necesarios para la toma de decisiones.
Information disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and ...friendscb
A comprehensive examination of information disorder including filter bubbles, echo chambers and information pollution published by the Council of Europe.
Identifying & Combating Misinformation w/ Fact Checking Tools is a presentation I prepared for US Embassy Youth Council 2024 members in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)_ A Friend or Enemy in Combating Disinformation ...211 Check
Artificial Intelligence (AI):
A Friend or Enemy in Combating Disinformation in South Sudan is a presentation by Makur Majeng as a part of a webinar organised by Defyhatenow South Sudan 211 Check project with support from the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN)
Prof Vian Bakir on COVID-19 as a global risk issue, suffused with uncertainty. On an inadequate foundation of knowledge about the virus, and with high potential for societal mood swings, governments across the world are instructing their citizens to engage in profound and rapid behaviour change (e.g. lockdowns, social distancing, better hygiene) in what can be characterised as a post-truth universe. The World Health Organisation announced in mid-February 2020 that the new COVID-19 pandemic is accompanied by a ‘massive “infodemic” - an over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it’. This talk discusses the scale and character of COVID-19 false information, and considers a range of multi-stakeholder solutions available to solve the ‘wicked problem’ of eliminating the spread and impact of false information on COVID-19.
Election Misinformation and Online Threat TacticsMichelle Ferrier
Dr. Michelle Ferrier presented on online threats against journalists and the misinformation economy at the First Draft Misinformation Workshop at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University on March 5, 2020.
Mis/Disinformation and Election 2020: Verification and Monitoring Tools for J...Michelle Ferrier
This presentation was given as introduction to the First Draft Election 2020 workshop on verification and digital monitoring. It includes a mini-primer on "fake news" and how to spot it.
La INFODEMIA es un neologismo que expresa la sobreinformación que sobre un tema se genera, en algunos casos de forma precisa y en otros no, y que hace difícil a las personas encontrar fuentes fiables para encontrar orientación cuando se necesita. Este gran volumen de información de un tema específico en un corto periodo de tiempo origina una “infoxicación”, es decir, una intoxicación por información. Si esta intoxicación se asocia a una pandemia actual (como la COVID-19) el término infodemia guarda un razonable parecido, teniendo en cuenta que en el “totum revolutum” es campo sembrado para los dimes y diretes, para la rumorología, la información errónea y la manipulación de las noticias con intenciones dudosas. En la era de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación, de la Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0… y las que vengan, este fenómeno se amplifica a través de las redes sociales, ese patio de vecinos sin control, extendiéndose más y más rápido que un virus esta información inválida o tóxica: de ahí el término “viralización”.
Si juntamos los efectos del virus SARS-CoV-2 con los efectos de la viralización de las redes sociales, y teniendo en cuenta dos principios conocidos en la comunicación periodística (que una buena noticia no es noticia y que las falacias se difunden más rápido que las verdades), tenemos el cóctel perfecto para crear el caos, el miedo y la COVIDofobia.
Y para que conste la preocupación por la infodemia basta revisar el documento adjunto de la PAHO (Pan American Health Organization), miembro de la Wordl Health Organization, donde se exponen algunos datos de interés para conocer la dimensión de este problema: en el último mes se han volcado 361 millones de vídeos en YouTube en relación con el tema de la COVID-19 y cerca de 20.000 artículos sobre el tema en Google Scholar, así como 550 millones de tweets en un mes que incluían el término COVID-19 o pandemia.
Es crítico disponer del acceso a la información, pero en el momento adecuado y en el formato adecuado. Hoy todo gira sobre lo mismo. Desayunamos, comemos, merendamos, cenamos y hasta dormimos con la misma noticia, visto desde tantas perspectivas y con tantos autoproclamados expertos que ya nos sabemos a qué atenernos. En este ambiente de infodemia, donde campa a sus anchas la prensa amarillista y los que sientan cátedra con la osadía de su desconocimiento, no se pueden aplicar los principios de calma y coherencia tan necesarios para la toma de decisiones.
Information disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and ...friendscb
A comprehensive examination of information disorder including filter bubbles, echo chambers and information pollution published by the Council of Europe.
Identifying & Combating Misinformation w/ Fact Checking Tools is a presentation I prepared for US Embassy Youth Council 2024 members in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Disinformation in Nepal: Example case studies; Types of misinformation campaigns; Challenges of mapping misinformation; Learnings from mapping misinformation in Nepal
[Nepali] Digital Security for Journalist WomenUjjwal Acharya
My presentation from training sessions on digital safety to journalist women in Nagarkot and Bhairahawa (in July 2017) organized by the Sancharika Samuha.
Nepal Media Status Report presented to the International Mission to Nepal for Promoting Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists 2015 at the Hotel Summit, April 19, 2015.
An introduction to Center for International Media Ethics' (CIME) an innovative approach that combines journalism, ethics and economics to guide towards use of media ethics to help improve the society and, more importantly, sustain the media business in an age where media is fast losing public trust and advertising.
Please note that the presentation was for a session in CIME Forum 2013 Islamabad, Pakistan and I just rephrased and made the original idea concise because of the time constrain. Also note the copyright of it is with CIME.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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2. Agenda
Introductions
Concepts of misinformation and hate
speech
Understanding key terms:
misinformation, disinformation,
malinformation, information disorder,
infodemic & f*** news
Understanding the impacts of
misinformation on individuals, society
and democracy
Discussions and Q/A
4. MyIntroduction
Since 2022: Managing Director of CMR-Nepal
Journalism Academy
Since 2020: Project head of NepalFactCheck
2019-2022: Senior Journalist (Social Media), BBC
2014-2018: South Asia Coordinator, IFJ
2013-2014: Digital Editor, Annapurna Post
2008-2011: Online Coordinator, Republica
Journalist
Media Researcher
Journalism Trainer
Kathmandu, Nepal
6. Misinformation
A false content.
Can appear on media, social
media, poster, speech,
interview, radio/tv show,
photo, graph, video –
anywhere.
Anything that is not fact.
Half-truth, false connection,
misleading information, out of
context, and manipulated or
fabricated content.
7. HateSpeech
Any kind of communication in
speech, writing or behavior,
that attacks or uses pejorative
or discriminatory language
with reference to a person or a
group on the basis of who they
are, in other words, based on
their religion, ethnicity,
nationality, race, color,
descent, gender or other
identity factor.
- The UN Strategy and Plan of Action on
Hate Speech
8. HateSpeech
1. Can be conveyed through
any form of expression,
including images, cartoons,
memes, objects, gestures
and symbols and
disseminated offline or
online.
2. Is “discriminatory” (biased,
bigoted or intolerant) or
“pejorative” (prejudiced,
contemptuous or
demeaning) of an individual
or group.
3. calls out real or perceived
“identity factors”.
10. Disinformation is content that is
intentionally false and designed to cause
harm. It is motivated by three factors: to
make money; to have political influence,
either foreign or domestic; or to cause
trouble for the sake of it.
Misinformation also describes false
content, but the person sharing doesn’t
realize that it is false or misleading.
Malinformation refers to the information
that is based on reality, but used to inflict
harm on a person, social group,
organization or country.
Misinformation
Disinformation
Malinformation
11.
12. Information disorder describes an
environment in which “disinformation,”
“misinformation,” and “malinformation”
are present and often combine to shape
politics in new and unexpected ways.
Fake news is not anymore preferred
terms because it’s ‘self-defeating’ and
‘oversimplifies complex problem’.
Politicians used the term to undermine
independent media and it also
undermines a strong weapon we have
against misinformation - news.
Informationdisorder
F***News
13. Infodemic is “the rapid spread of
information of all kinds, including
rumors, gossip and unreliable
information” and generating ”confusion,
anxiety and even panic in times of
serious infectious outbreaks”. (WHO)
Disinfodemic describes the deliberate
“falsehoods fueling the pandemic” and
its “viral load of potentially deadly
disinformation”. (UNESCO)
Infodemic
Disinfodemic
17. Child Abduction Rumour: More than 27
people have been killed since 2017 in
cases related to mob lynching after a
false video showing men on motorcycle
abducting a child spreads through
WhatsApp.
IndiaMobLynching
Cow vigilante violence: Between 2010
and 2017, "28 Indians – 24 of them
Muslims – were killed and 124 injured“
18. Holocaust, 1941-45, 6 million
Cambodian Genocide, 1975-79, >1.5
million
Rwanda Genocide, 1994, half a million
Rohingya, since 2016, 25K
Genocides