Michael Shellenberger

I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.

American Author

Asha Rangappa

Reflexive control is a 'uniquely Russian' technique of psychological manipulation through disinformation. The idea is to feed your adversary a set of assumptions that will produce a predictable response: That response, in turn, furthers a goal that advances your interests.

American Lawyer

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.

Pakistani Politician

Carl Bernstein

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

American Journalist

Jared Cohen

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

American Businessman

James Lovelock

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

English Scientist

Will Hurd

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

American Politician

John Ratcliffe

Hunter Biden's laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

Sebastian Gorka

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

British Public Servant

Fiona Hill

The Russians thrive on misinformation and disinformation.

American Public Servant

Disinformation is often used to hide the truth for certain goals like influencing public opinion.

Hidden Goals

Unlike misinformation, disinformation is spread deliberately. It's not about being wrong; it's about deceiving.

Not a Mistake

Disinformation can be a tactic in politics or power struggles, where facts are manipulated to gain advantage.

Power Plays

 and that massively increases trust. And finally, the third one, the humor versus rumor, I think the important thing to see here is that wherever there's a trending disinformation or conspiracy theory, you respond to it with a humorous package within two hours. We have discovered, if we respond within two hours,

How digital innovation...

 It's memes, videos, social posts. And most of it is not fake; it's misleading. We tend to fixate on what's true or false. But the biggest concern is actually the weaponization of context. Because the most effective disinformation has always been that which has a kernel of truth to it.

How you can help...

 trying to build plans to combat disinformation and voter suppression in political ads, were rejected. And so I lasted just shy of six months. But here is my biggest takeaway from my time there. There are thousands of people at Facebook who are passionately working on a product

Dear Facebook, this is...

 will begin pushing false information to swing the election in his favor. Your job is to inoculate the townspeople against false information before the election. One of the most effective ways to tackle disinformation is to encourage people to think about the strategies

Can you outsmart a troll...

 A global crisis of fake news and disinformation, which meant that our free-knowledge movement really sort of stood alone. At the same time, too, we saw a collapse in public trust around the world in many of our critical civic institutions.

What Wikipedia Teaches...

 But that enables the spread of disinformation; that facilitates polarization. What if technology instead could enable empathy at scale? This was the question that motivated our partnership with Google's Counter Abuse team, Wikipedia

How technology can fight...

 the ballot is whether it's actually worth it to vote and and of course it is worth it but i think that with in the middle of a pandemic with so much misinformation and disinformation and voter suppression

Continuing the Fight for...

 do an evangelical conservative said we conservatives are find of anything that appears to threaten the values we hold dear and that's exactly what the disinformation campaign does it frames

The climate change...

 whether it's training to bolster cybersecurity or to combat disinformation or to help them keep voters safe during a pandemic. And every election department, rural, urban, large, small,

An Election Redesign to...

 by talking about things. The truth, you know, the easiest way to counter misinformation and disinformation is to be enthusiastic about spreading correct information.