What's Your Innovative Approach to Disinformation?

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After November 2016, as you can imagine, there was much more concern about this globally. So we worked with French partners to work on a collaboration with over 30 newsrooms who said, we don't think we can do this alone. We want to work together. Our belief is that no newsroom should compete when it comes to disinformation. And so we now have rolled that out in places like Nigeria and Brazil and we've worked with journalists in Australia and Myanmar.

How can tech companies help flatten the curve? First and foremost, they must address the lethal misinformation and disinformation circulating on their platforms. The problem goes much deeper than fake news, according to Claire Wardle, co-founder and executive director of First Draft. She studies the gray zones of information warfare, where bad actors mix facts with falsehoods, news with gossip, and sincerity with satire. “Most of this stuff isn't fake and most of this stuff isn't news,” Claire argues. If these subtler forms of misinformation go unaddressed, tech companies may not only fail to flatten the curve — they could raise it higher.