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A lesson from Census Counts: How to prevent disinfo from spreading

This example from the Census Counts campaign shows how a network of civil rights organizations worked to prevent disinformation from suppressing participation in the 2020 Census.

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Don’t Wait, Inoculate! Messaging to preempt disinformation

Raphael Warnock’s 2020 campaign in Georgia for the U.S. Senate demonstrates how to effectively use inoculation messaging to combat disinformation.

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Communications Lessons From A Comedian: Stop Giving Fake Experts a Platform

When media give fake experts an equal platform to debate an indisputable issue like climate change, they can create a false equivalency and inadvertently contribute to the spread of mis- and disinformation.

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How Disinformation Is Used To Suppress Votes

Political ad targeting, bots and sockpuppet accounts are just some of the ways people sow mis- and disinformation online to suppress votes.

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When You Don’t Realize You’re Spreading Disinformation

Disinformation is not always waged exclusively by bad actors. Read more about the Home Affairs hoax during the 2020 Census and how well meaning people can sometimes inadvertently spread mis- and disinformation too.

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WHY CHOOSE The Just Truth Guide?

Spitfire believes that fighting disinformation is a skill that organizations working on issues as far ranging as democracy, civil rights, immigration, racial justice, gender justice, poverty alleviation, health, climate change and more need to have as a core competency.

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Yesterday and Today

Disinformation is not a new phenomenon, but 24-hour news cycles and evolving technology have accelerated its dissemination in recent years. Whether to preserve corporate interests, hoard political power or maintain white supremacist and patriarchal systems, we can’t ignore the fact that the harmful narratives pushed for decades (or longer) are still at play in our current communication ecosystem.

The Impact

Coordinated disinformation campaigns have manipulated social media users in an attempt to suppress Black voter participation in numerous election cycles. Disinformation running rampant disrupts and endangers our public health and economic responses to the pandemic so much so the World Health Organization has coined it an “info-demic.” And decades of disinformation have slowed the global response to climate change and discredited legitimate science.

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