Disinformation Handbook: A Concise Guide to Countering Disinformation (3)

Part Three: Further reading on disinformation and how to protect yourselves and others

As the Natto Team discussed previously, disinformation – the deliberate spread of false or misleading information – can do grave political, social and psychological harm to those whom it mischaracterizes and to those who are misled by it. 

• Part 1 provided some concepts associated with disinformation as well as tactics that information operations use.

• Part 2 suggested ways you can detect disinformation and avoid being harmed or manipulated by it. It lists organizations and people who work to detect and counter disinformation and the techniques they use, including developments related to artificial intelligence. 

• Part 3, the present section, provides links to handbooks on disinformation and how to counter it, as well as the Natto Team’s own postings.

Natto Thoughts Reporting on Disinformation

• “Putin: The Spy As Hero” discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s emulation of a fictional Soviet spy hero named Stierlitz. “Like Stierlitz, he has no compunctions lying to all sides, because a war …