An agenda for disinformation research

Tags

  • policy
  • research

CCC paper on fighting online disinformation. Categorizes suggested future policies. Calls for the creation of new tools to fight disinformation. Calls for understanding both on the supply and demand end of consumption. Calls for an interdisciplinary approach (blend of humanities, social science, education, journalism, and computer and science […and politics]). Six strategic targets

  1. Detection at scale
  2. Measurement of impact
  3. Data infra
  4. New ethical guidelines
  5. Education interventions
  6. Workforce training

Solutions to [impact measurement] will require advances in the identification and extraction of complex cognitive/rhetorical structures (e.g., metaphors, narratives, frames) and in the development of enduring laboratory proxies of human community engagement

Yup.

Different platforms should provide vetted researchers with (…)

Who watches the watchers.

These interventions will require research at the intersection between psychology, sociology, philosophy, and the computer and information sciences

Also politics.

Additionally, we need to develop tools that journalists, scientists, and educators can leverage to underpin credible information

Also remind that the tools themselves are imperfect.

[consider] how best to train the next generation of computing professionals in such a way that their processes and aspirations align not only with technical excellence, but with a practicable mindset and toolset for applied ethics.

Also how to act when things invariably break down, lest a single deflecting agent ruin harmony.

will be vital in preserving our democratic society

False premise?