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Oct 5, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Nina Jankowicz
During this week’s vice presidential debate, Sen. JD Vance attempted to present Donald Trump’s agenda to the American people in a gentler light. The Vance that voters have seen in his cable news and podcast appearances — invoking “childless cat ladies” and asserting parents should have more voting power than nonparents — was nowhere to be found. Instead, for much of the debate, Vance presented himself as a slick, Ivy League debater with an “aw, shucks” exterior.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Nina Jankowicz
Civil Rights12 hours agoDenny Hamlin accuses NASCAR Radio of censorship amid lawsuit - Racing Newsracingnews.co - Shane Walters • 12hJeffrey Kessler is a well known antitrust lawyer. He’s the attorney for 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports. On Wednesday, Kessler made an …Culture1 day agoThis Exhibition Celebrates the Unrestrained Pleasure of Sexanothermag.com - Emily Steer • 1dHow do we learn what is shameful? Which urges are seen as natural, and which remain in the dark?
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
whowhatwhy.org | Allison L. Neitzel |Nina Jankowicz
Having won in the courts, Meta CEO capitulated to MAGA in his letter to Jim Jordan. For years now, social media has been a vital tool in the political information wars, as its weaponization has opened a stream of misinformation far more powerful than traditional media could ever hope to achieve. This reached flood levels with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic — with deadly results as MAGA waged war on scientific fact.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
ninajankowicz.com | Nina Jankowicz
In 2016, the Russian Federation famously used $100,000 Facebook advertisements to attempt to influence American voters. The outcomes were mixed; some were so poorly conceived and riddled with grammatical errors that even supercharging their reach with an ad buy couldn’t get them off the ground.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
aspi.org.au | Nina Jankowicz |Justin Bassi
In the second video edition of The Sydney Dialogue Summit Sessions, ASPI’s Executive Director Justin Bassi sits down with Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže. Justin and Baiba discuss the partnership between the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific, and how democracies can work together to strengthen regional and global stability.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Nina Jankowicz
On Sunday, when President Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, I already knew what vitriol would be unleashed against her online. Four years ago, I led a study investigating gendered abuse and disinformation against female political candidates. Over two months, we found 336,000 pieces of abuse or disinformation targeting just 13 candidates across six social media platforms.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Nina Jankowicz
When I learned I was named as a defendant in Missouri v. Biden, the predecessor to Murthy v. Missouri, a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. government, in coordination with independent researchers, had censored American citizens via social media, I was 36 weeks pregnant, extremely out of breath and in the midst of one of the worst weeks of my life.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Nina Jankowicz
2 hours agoA lot of these movies were soooooo ahead of their time. Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code, which basically prevented them from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or "inappropriate." A lot of filmmakers got creative about …
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
freebeacon.com | Andrew Stiles |Nina Jankowicz
Claim: The Washington Free Beacon was the first "mainstream media" outlet to promote "deeply antisemitic tropes" by reporting on billionaire George Soros's funding of legal defense funds for anti-Israel protesters and by describing the protesters who praised Hamas as "pro-Hamas."Who said it: Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, chief communications officer of the American Sunlight Project. He cofounded the nonprofit with Nina Jankowicz, the Biden administration's would-be disinformation czar.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
unionleader.com | Nina Jankowicz |Barbara L. McQuade |Sasha Issenberg
Attack From Within How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America By Barbara McQuade Seven Stories. 374 pp. $35- - -The Lie Detectives In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age By Sasha Issenberg Columbia Global Reports. 211 pp. $18+++Barbara McQuade and I don’t have much in common, other than both having written books about disinformation and being women. But for the anonymous users on an online forum for automatic-weapons enthusiasts, that’s all that matters.
