Disinformation

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Basen, Ira, "Brand New World." CBC Documentary, June 29, 2014.

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Brandt, Allan M., The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2007.

Brodeur, Paul. Outrageous Misconduct: The Asbestos Industry on Trial. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

Buchanan, Ben, The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Celadin, Tatiana, Valerio Capraro, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023)."Displaying News Source Trustworthiness Ratings Reduces Sharing Intentions for False News Posts" Journal of Trust and Safety. Vol. 1, No. 5.

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Epstein, Ziv, Nathaniel Sirlin, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023) "The social media context interferes with truth discernment," Science Advances. Vol. 9 No. 9

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Fallis, Don. "What Is Disinformation" Library Trends 63 (2015):401-426.

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Goldacre, Ben, Big Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. London: Fourth Estate, 2012.

Howard, Philip N., Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020

Ireton, Cherilyn and Julie Posetti, Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training. New York: UNESCO, 2018.

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Levitin, Daniel J., A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2016.

Lin, Hause, David G. Rand, and Gordon Pennycook. 2023. “Conscientiousness Does Not Moderate the Association Between Political Ideology and Susceptibility to Fake News Sharing.” Journal of Experimental Psychology (June 29).

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Michaels, David, Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Mirowski, Philip, and Esther-Miriam Sent (eds.), Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Posetti, Julie and Alice Matthews, A short guide to the history of ’fake news’ and disinformation. International Centre for Journalists, 2018.

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Proctor, Robert N., Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber, Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future. New York: Centre for Media and Democracy, 2001.

Rid, Thomas, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Rosenfeld, Sophia, Democracy and Truth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Leave Facebook, or Use it for Good?

Only a few months removed from last fall’s mass cancellation of X accounts following the US election results (see James Turk’s piece on that here), it looks like we may be in for a similar exodus from META’s Facebook, Threads, and Instagram.

Why I will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X

The Guardian’s decision earlier this week to stop posting on X finally prompted me to take the same step, one I have been contemplating for some time. Whereas the decision of the Guardian, which has 27-million followers, is consequential, my decision (with my 1,018 followers) is not. Still, for me, it is important to dissociate myself from what Musk has made of X.

CFE Joins in the Call for More Consultation on the Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act

The Centre for Free Expression has joined with 23 other organizations and 34 individual experts to call on Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne to split the proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) from the omnibus Bill C-27 in which it is currently embedded so it can be returned to the parliamentary committee for proper consideration – something it has not had to date.