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The Student View
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Media literacy charity training secondary school pupils how to spot misinformation and as local news reporters.
Apr 28, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/10 *BRIGADING* - Why it matters and what you should know about it. Last week we covered astroturfing, see the thread below for more details.

Think of brigading as astroturfing’s more authentic cousin

2/10 What is brigading?

Brigading is when members of one community swarm another online community, making normal operations impossible due to volume of comments, posts, off-topic discussions
Apr 23, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/8 This piece from @JaneLytv is a great breakdown of the #BillGates conspiracy theory and how it spread and continues to spread, while also including comprehensive debunking

buzzfeednews.com/article/janely… 2/8 The story is interesting for three reasons: 1. How fast it went from nothing to the mainstream, once it started being shared (piggy-backing off prior Gates-related conspiracy theories)
Apr 21, 2020 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
1/14 *ASTROTURFING*

An important digital phenomenon that is often misunderstood and really important to understand so you can spot inauthentic content, platform manipulation, and potential misinformation. No space involved! 2/14 1st, what is astroturfing? It’s coordinated messaging meant to appear as grassroots opinion, and it exists allllll over the web in diff forms.

Astroturf = fake grass, so astroturfing = fake grassroots digital activity. Bots/actors pretending to be genuine people/accounts
Apr 16, 2020 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
1 This report from @risj_oxford on media use during the #COVID19 pandemic is both illuminating and alarming. It confirms some things we thought we knew and reveals other things we didn’t ⬇️

2 In the UK, online & TV dominate as main sources of news. 79% of people got news in some form online, 70% from TV, and 43% from social media. Newspapers at 17% - ouch…

img.datawrapper.de/TVDNr/full.png via @risj_oxford
Mar 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
WHY THE SEARCH BAR IS YOUR BEST TOOL TO COUNTER #MISINFORMATION ABOUT #CORONAVIRUS: a 3-part series

1. Basic search: quick and easy 🧐

2. The 'news' tab on the results page 📰

3. Reverse image search 📸

All of these are fundamental tools in the anti #COVID19 infodemic toolkit PART 1:

We're all familiar with SEARCH, but it's seriously underrated as a tool to help you identify and counter misinformation. Search is incredibly powerful - USE IT 🙌