03/04: Renee DiResta

[smiklin]

Comment below with questions or thoughts about the reading for this week's workshop.

Please make your comments by Wednesday 11:59 PM, and upvote at least five of your peers' comments on Thursday prior to the workshop. You need to use 'thumbs-up' for your reactions to count towards 'top comments,' but you can use other emojis on top of the thumbs up.

[jinfei1125]

Thank you so much for sharing this report with us! It's very interesting and enlightening. I have been continuously hearing misinformation and fake news, and I really want to share your work with those who are misled by misinformation. I find you analyzed and evaluate platforms' policies and actors' behavior and communications in your work, do you think, is there some effective way for the platform, or government, or us, to control the mis- and disinformation? Thank you again for sharing this excellent work with us!

[chun-hu]

Thank you for sharing! My question is also how to timely predict misinformation.

[egemenpamukcu]

Thank you for coming to our workshop and presenting your work. It has been shown several times that misinformation spreads faster than the uninteresting truth in social media platforms. It also attracts more clicks and engagement, which platforms with advertising based revenue models such as Facebook and Twitter rely on to sustain their growth rates. So I would like to echo @chrismaurice0 's question on Section 230 and also ask what would be some of the potential long-term effects of holding platforms responsible for content published by their users? Do you think this can somehow lead to excessive censorship by the platforms to avoid charges, and indirectly suppress the spread of useful information?

[Anqi-Zhou]

Thank you for the inspiring sharing!! Since we now have the explanation of misinformation mechanism, what are the potential suggested methods for government to deal with such misinformation spread? Censorship, or something else?

[weijiexu-charlie]

Thanks for your presentation. I was wondering how this study could influence policymaking.

[97seshu]

Thank you for presenting. Same as my other classmates, I am also curious about how your findings can help to prevent the spread of misinformation.

[afchao]

Thank you for presenting to our group! The 2020 election was obviously quite recent - if the 2016 election is anything to go by (and, while I don't have concrete evidence to support this claim, I nevertheless suspect it could be), is there an extent to which analyses on the nature and spread of misinformation in its context may be interpretations of proximal outcomes from a distal source? What I mean is that, as time has allowed for increasingly close inspections of the 2016 election, details have come to light regarding contributors to the information climate surrounding it which were the subject of speculation at best in March of 2017. Would the discovery of new information e.g. concerning foreign interference in the propagation of #stopthesteal change how we should interpret your findings?

[RuoyunTan]

This report is really interesting. I noticed that many of the recommendations focus on promoting some official platforms to provide accurate information to the public. My personal view is that people tend to believe what they want to believe. If individuals are subjectively selecting the information to accept as the "truth", will this kind of official platform be effective in correcting misinformation?

[luxin-tian]

Thank you very much for sharing. As is mentioned by @lulululugagaga , indeed, misinformation can be confusing when advocated by KOLs or figures that people trust. How could this bias be corrected?

[hhx2207061197]

Thank you very much for sharing your work. I look forward to your talk tomorrow.

[kthomas14]

Thank you for sharing your work and presenting for us! I would like to ask about some of the methodological approaches to the recommendations that were made to government officials and social media platforms. Are there algorithmic ways in which dis-/mis- information can be monitored to try and reduce the spread across digital platforms?

[ydeng117]

Thank you so much for your presentation. I am curious about what parameters can signal a potential spread of influential misinformation. Also, how does EIP define "impactful" regarding the misleading narratives related to voting?

[JuneZzj]

Thank you for presenting. I am curious about why many platforms expanded the policies but the applications of the moderate policies are inconsistent? Thank you.

[XinSu6]

Thank you so much for sharing you work! My question is how can misinformation varies on different targeted groups and whether there can be any different effects that are specific to different groups?

Thank you and looking forward to your speech

[YijingZhang-98]

Thank you for your excellent work. It just comes up to me that Twitter implemented permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump. It seems to be reasonable since he sometimes support violence and some misinformation. However, it seems not reasonable for a technology company to have such a big power to forbid someone to be heard. I would appreciate it if you could comment on the this. Thanks

[caibengbu]

Thank you very much for sharing. As is mentioned by @lulululugagaga , indeed, misinformation can be confusing when advocated by KOLs or figures that people trust. How could this bias be corrected?

[wanxii]

How would you compare the differences between misinformation spread online and through traditional media (e.g., newspaper, advertisements, brochures, etc.)?

[siruizhou]

Thank you for sharing. I'm curious about whether the misinformation of the 2020 election is a generalization of previous elections or the 2020 election itself is more problematic given the circumstances.

[ziwnchen]

Thanks a lot for the presentation! It always intrigues me how to identify "softer" misinformation, that is, information with inappropriate narrative/bias. Look forward to learning more about how you deal with this kind of information in the project!

[ginxzheng]

Thank you for coming to our workshop! I was wondering how would you put the research into practice. Would you talk a bit more about how feasible and effective will the recommendations mentioned in the paper be executed? Thank you!

[Qlei23]

Thank you for sharing your work with us! I'm curious about your recommendations for the public to avoid this type of mis- and dis-information. Looking forward to your presentation!

[yongfeilu]

Thank you very much for your sharing! I am wondering how you handle the misinformation of the 2020 Election? Moreover, how do you deal with the lag effect of the misinformation of election? Thank you !

[timqzhang]

Thank you for your paper. I wonder how you specify the notion of misinformation? Thank you !

[yierrr]

Thanks for the paper! I'm also curious about the solutions to misinformation. Thank you!

[ChivLiu]

Thank you so much for sharing this presentation! I am also curious about how social media justify which posts are misinformation. As we know, there are many resources disseminating fake news about China on Facebook and Twitter, but most of them are not banned by those platforms.

[Rui-echo-Pan]

Thank you for sharing! I'm also curious about the misinformation issue!

[zixu12]

Thanks for your sharing work! I am wondering what are your recommendations for us to avoid this type of mis- and dis-information?

[Yiqing-Zh]

Thank you for your presentation! I am wondering when and how the government should prevent the spread of misinformation.

[chentian418]

Thanks for your great work! I was wondering how well do you think your definition of misinformation captures in the thriving digital information world? Thanks!

[lyl010]

Thanks for coming! I would like to know more about the multi-directional and participatory spreading of mis-information. Is there is any common characteristics on this two ways of spreading and which direction is more surprising for researchers? If there is any content difference between information being spread? Thank you a lot!

[YaoYao121]

Thank you for your presentation! This is really an interesting research about information. By the way, I am very curious about how to indentify and forecase the misinformation in reality. And also since now we know from your research about the presence of mis- and dis- information, how could we avoid the negative effect from an applied perspective in your opinion, please? Thanks!

[chuqingzhao]

Thank you for sharing. I am also curious about the definition of mis/disinformation and the solution.

[FranciscoRMendes]

Thanks for sharing your work, could you elaborate a little more on how the general public can detect misinformation and stop its spread?

[YileC928]

Thank you for sharing your work with us. Looking forward to seeing @adarshmathew's question being answered.

[MegicLF]

Thanks for sharing! I wonder how you define the misinformation and the solution to this issue.

[TwoCentimetre]

Given all these drama caused by social media, do you think these information channels and social media should be centralized and run by the government rather than run by some those private companies.

[Panyw97]

Thank you for sharing! I'm looking forward to hearing your approach to deal with the misinformation.

[Tanzi11]

Thank you for presenting your work, I look forward to catching up on your presentation!

[skanthan95]

Thank you for presenting! It sounds like there are lots of sources of misinformation and many related parts of the chain that eventually disseminates this information to the public. Like many of my peers, my question is about which part of the misinformation chain is the most crucial to tackle, to prevent the spread of misinformation?

[anqi-hu]

Thank you for sharing your work with us! What is your opinion on the ethics of mis/disinformation, as that is perhaps an aspect with more ambiguity?

[qishenfu1]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful work! Do you discover that people in some particular age groups are more likely to accept misleading information? Thank you!

[hihowme]

Thanks a lot for your work! What do you think the most important takeaways of your work to other disciplines? Thanks a lot!

[alevi98]

Hi Dr. DiResta,

Thank you for coming to our workshop and presenting on such a recent, relevant historical event. I'm honestly in awe at how comprehensive your report is (283 pages, some of which was produced in just under two months?!) Looking forward to the conversation soon.