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Clara Jeffery @ClaraJeffery
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1/ *taps mic* I have an important announcement about a project that needs your help: We're creating a team to combat disinformation: motherjones.com/media/2018/05/…
2/ Let's review how our major institutions utterly failed to recognize and fight disinformation and propaganda in in 2016:
3/ Disinformation has always existed, but it is *the* critical feature of the Trump era. We can't track and expose it using the same journalistic methods of previous eras, where media and political and tech reporting are separate silos.
4/ So we want to hire a crack investigative journalist and a data scientist to track propaganda through the thickets of social media, and report on what platforms and regulators are doing or not doing about it.
5/ If there is one area to get more talent on right now, before the midterms, it is this one. So yeah, this is a fundraising pitch. But it's more than that.
6/ Because when we've asked readers to step up on special projects, they always have. All the way back to when twitter users offered @MacMcClelland a boat during the BP oil spill.
7/ Through various crisis both widely recognized and not yet recognized (like when we started a mass shooting project in 2012: motherjones.com/politics/2012/…) you guys have stepped up.
8/ Maybe you can donate, that would be awesome. But there are other ways to help too: motherjones.com/media/2018/05/…
9/ Are there great reporters working on parts of what we hope to accomplish elsewhere? Yes there are. But we need more. And we need it with a MoJo ethos. Here's a reminder why:
10/ We'll have some job postings up soon. Meanwhile, here's how you can donate to this initiative: secure.motherjones.com/fnx/?action=SU…
11/ And let's not forget that one of the ways the platforms are failing re propaganda is against radicalization:
-of white supremacists
-of "incels" and "men's right activists"/rape apologists
-other home-grown terrorists
12/ This project will knit together all the great reporting we've done on those areas to show the pathways that this poison is moving through our society.
13/ Meanwhile, if you have tips for us, on this or any topic, here's how to leak to us: motherjones.com/contribute/how…
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