False knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.
October 21, 2020 5:53 PM   Subscribe

The Media Manipulation Casebook. "The Media Manipulation Casebook is a research platform that advances knowledge of misinformation and disinformation and their threats to democracy, public health, and security. The Casebook is a new resource for building the field of Critical Internet Studies by equipping researchers with case studies, theory, methods, and frameworks to analyze the interplay of media ecosystems, technology, politics, and society." Background.
posted by storybored (4 comments total) 35 users marked this as a favorite
 
Typo in headline ("ignorane" rather than "ignorance")
posted by rednikki at 6:10 PM on October 21, 2020


Mod note: Fixed!
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:22 PM on October 21, 2020 [1 favorite]


The mis- and dis- words look like sanitized uses of propaganda. Why so polite when sources rarely mean well?

Allows for, "Whoops! I misinformed you." They get outs for free.
posted by filtergik at 3:21 AM on October 22, 2020


Great post! Somehow I missed it but caught it before a double.
posted by rubatan at 2:36 PM on November 1, 2020


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