2023-09-23 14:21 UTC
I appreciate the WA Post drawing attention to attacks on researchers in the field of online misinformation, but there a few pieces of this story (e.g. about researchers "buckling") that just aren't accurate, at least not from my perspective at UW. I'm going to post (below) my full comment here to the Post (sent weeks ago), most of which was excluded in this piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/
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@katestarbird@mstdn.social 2023-09-23 14:21
“At UW, my colleagues, students, and I have been doing “rapid research” documenting social media use during crisis events and online rumors for more than a decade, and we continue to do that work. Our team at the UW Center for an Informed Public just issued a rapid research report on YouTube videos about the Maui wildfire earlier this month."
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@pinsk@freeradical.zone 2023-09-23 16:30
@katestarbird I'm trying to understand why the post would want to convey an impression of researchers buckling under dis and misinformation attacks