{"id":3714,"date":"2020-10-25T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2020-10-25T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:20:26","slug":"disinformation-week-action-disruptdisinfo-block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2020\/10\/25\/disinformation-week-action-disruptdisinfo-block-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation Week of Action and the #DisruptDisinfo Block Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1420\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/TW-TH-TW_FB-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Twitter Block Party: Monday October 26 4-5 PM ET\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MediaJustice and <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the Disinfo Defense League are kicking off their Week of Action Against Disinformation with the\u00a0<strong>#DisruptDisinfo <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Twitter Block Party <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><strong>Monday<\/strong> October 26 at 1 PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great chance to learn how to respond when people share disinformation &#8212; and how to avoid sharing disinformation yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you&#8217;re on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DisruptDisinfo\">you can follow along here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Disinfo Defense League is a group of non-partisan non-profits and researchers, and they&#8217;ve got a lot of other great events planned as part of the week of action.\u00a0\u00a0 A few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/359830621922273\/\">Canaries in the Coal Mine: Racialized Disinformation in the Digital Age<\/a>: featureing experts from United We Dream, UltraViolet, Asian-Americans Advancing Justice and Stop Online Violence Against Women.\u00a0 Wednesday 10\/28 at 11 p.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialdilemma.com\/event\/social-media-manipulation-election-integrity\/\">The Democracy Dilemma: Social Media, Disinformation, and Election Integrity<\/a> , with Charlton McIlwaine, Caroline Cadwalladr, Shireen Mitchell, and Jesse Littlewood.\u00a0 Thursday 10\/29, 9:30 a.m. Pacific (12:30 p.m. Eastern)<\/li>\n<li>Healing from Disinformation, hosted by United We Dream, Thursday 10\/29 4:00 p.m. Pacific (7:00 p.m. Eastern)<\/li>\n<li>A Reddit AMA, Friday 10\/30, 8:00 a.m. Pacific (11:00 a.m. Eastern)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s not enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/bigiftrue\">Joan Donovan will be starting off each day of the week with a stream on Big if True<\/a> at 11:00 p.m. Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t wait till next week to get started &#8230; no worries!\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a couple of videos to tide you over.\u00a0\u00a0 First of all, here&#8217;s a short video by Shireen Mitchell with tips about cutting down the spread of disinformation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/471961897\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/471961897\">Everybody&#8217;s been targeted by disinformation and other kinds of propaganda<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/indipluswa\">Indivisible Plus Washington<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Ruha Benjamin, Safiya Noble, Fadi Quaran, and Shireen discussing voter suppression with the Real Facebook Oversight Board &#8212; great background to the <em>Canaries in the Coal Mine<\/em> and <em>Democracy Dilemma<\/em> events.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OLzGdjzaP4c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHosted by MediaJustice and the Disinfo Defense League.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}