Elaine Schnabel

An Election Coverage Resource for Media Production

A summary of current research and policy proposals

A Critical Evaluation of Disinformation Narratives in Media and Scholarship

Four recommendations about what social media can still do to protect elections

An overview of social media and digital advertising platforms' policies

A side-by-side comparison of social media platforms’ attempts to enforce truth and the challenges they face

If you want to understand who disinformation serves, look to discursive constructions of identity and morality.

"My knowledge is better than yours" and other right-wing configurations of truth and media literacy on YouTube reproduce global white supremacy.

Epistemological instability poses a challenge for contemporary democracies. But it also opens democratic possibilities.

Certain stylistic patterns cut across news, politics, and entertainment—all pointing to conservative media corporations' creation of the conditions for disinformation.

Experts in Mali, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Senegal show how Africa-specific dynamics of democratization, state control, and mobility shape the creation of its information disorder.

If you want to understand how the public is being harmed by disinformation, start with state violence. Only then can we account for the unequal social terrain produced by forms of interlocking oppression.

Disinformation is a form of socially constructed ignorance, so let's look at the actors who disseminate it and their motives.

Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too.

Inverting the script of the Global South case study, Yến-Khanh and Phelan show what insight the Vietnamese context offers the mis/disinformation crisis in Western liberal democracies.

Why ignore the classics? Public relations and persuasion contribute to disinformation dissemination, too.

Disinformation isn't about truth. It's about speculation.

Maybe it's time for disinformation studies (at least in its current form) to fade away - or become something new

Historical and contemporary formations of power and state violence, including imperialism, colonialism, and militarism impact current modalities of technological and institutional governance

Offering insight on how to compete with coordinated deceptive information campaigns - created in collaboration with UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life