Here's a quick thread of three top reads on information disorder for you today, collated by the First Draft monitoring team:
GPT-3 is designed to create text that reads as though it was written by a human, and according to new research it could be used to create QAnon supporting bots that drive online radicalization: middlebury.edu/institute/site…
“About 1 in 5 voters polled have volunteered ideas that veered into the realm of conspiracy theory, ranging from QAnon to the notion that COVID-19 is a hoax”. How did we get here? @TIME ‘s @CharlotteAlter offers some clues
time.com/5887437/conspi…
Coordinated disinformation campaigns by hundreds of accounts working together to distort public perception can be catastrophic for democratic values, especially in parts of the world that are already politically polarized, writes @Sonal152 for @TheQuint
thequint.com/explainers/why…
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