Disinformation Handbook: A Concise Guide to Countering Disinformation (2)

Part Two: Tips for protecting yourselves and others, plus an introduction to some disinformation researchers

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

Introduction: Topsy-Turvy World 

If you saw the movie “Oppenheimer,” you might remember this scene near the beginning: as a student in the 1920s, young Oppenheimer “reads T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, drops a needle on Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite …