Presentation: Disinformation and Social Media in the 2020 Presidential Election Cycle including steps on how to discover and combat it.
Was given to the NATIONAL FEDERATION OF DEMOCRATIC WOMEN Southwest Regional Conferences in Las Vegas NV.
56. MOST COMMON TYPE OF RUSSIAN FAKE ACCOUNT
THESE ARE NOT BOTS, BUT REAL PEOPLE
THREE FLOORS OF ”TROLLS”
THIS IS THE FIRST FLOOR
DISINFORMATION ON TWITTER: THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM
57. DISINFORMATION ON TWITTER: RUSSIAN FARMS
LIKELY FAKE ACCOUNT
Why?
Tone after never interacting with an account and we do not follow each other
59. DISINFORMATION ON TWITTER: RUSSIAN FARMS
HOW TO DEAL WITH FAKES AND BOTS
• COMMENT THAT THEY ARE FAKE IN THE RESPONSE
• IMMEDIATELY GO TO THEIR PROFILE
• REPORT THE ACCOUNTS AS FAKE
• BLOCK
• THIS TELLS TWITTER’S ALGORITHMS
• TO KEEP THE ACCOUNT UNDER REVIEW
• ENOUGH REPORTS THEY GET
• BANNED OR “SHADOWBANNED”
62. DISINFORMATION ON TWITTER: RUSSIAN FARMS
HOW TO DEAL WITH FAKES AND BOTS
• COMMENT THAT THEY ARE FAKE IN THE RESPONSE
• IMMEDIATELY GO TO THEIR PROFILE
• REPORT THE ACCOUNTS AS FAKE
• BLOCK
• THIS TELLS TWITTER’S ALGORITHMS
• TO KEEP THE ACCOUNT UNDER REVIEW
• ENOUGH REPORTS THEY GET
• BANNED OR “SHADOWBANNED”
76. In increasingly popular tactic challenges conventional wisdom on the spread of electoral
disinformation: the creation of partisan outlets masquerading as local news organizations. An
investigation by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has
discovered at least 450 websites in a network of local and business news organizations, each
distributing thousands of algorithmically generated articles and a smaller number of reported
stories. Of the 450 sites we discovered, at least 189 were set up as local news networks
across ten states within the last twelve months by an organization called Metric Media.