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This virtual public workshop facilitated a cross-disciplinary discussion about disinformation to identify new areas of research and new approaches to combat disinformation. The workshop provided an overview of the disinformation landscape in social media; examine technologies and tools used to detect and counter disinformation; consider legal and non-regulatory approaches for addressing disinformation; and examined approaches to understand user susceptibility to disinformation and to counter such disinformation.
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·2024
The online information environment enables the global exchange of information and ideas, but it also contributes to the proliferation of disinformation. Online platforms operate at a scale where human-based content moderation to counter disinformation is impractical or at least very expensive and wh...
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Statement of Task
An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a workshop to consider practicable technological, legal, and social science solutions to combat disinformation on social media. Building upon past work in this space, the workshop will stimulate a cross-disciplinary discussion about disinformation and identify new areas of research and new approaches to combat disinformation. It will: 1) provide an overview of the disinformation landscape in social media, including malicious disinformation strategies in political and health arenas; 2) examine technologies and tools used to detect and counter disinformation (and their limitations); 3) consider legal and non-regulatory approaches, including national and international efforts to develop codes of conduct and multilateral and bilateral agreements, to address disinformation; and 4) examine approaches developed in the social and behavioral sciences to understand user susceptibility to disinformation and to counter such disinformation. A proceedings in brief will be issued following the workshop.
Contributors
Committee
Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Steven R. Kendall
Staff Officer
Sponsors
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Rockefeller-Foundation
Staff
Steven Kendall
Lead
Anne-Marie Mazza
Renee Daly
Major units and sub-units
Policy and Global Affairs
Lead
Center for Advancing Science and Technology
Lead
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Collaborator
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Collaborator
U.S. Science and Innovation Policy
Lead
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
Collaborator
Science and Technology Policy and Law Program Area
Lead
Board on Science Education
Collaborator
Committee on Science, Technology, and Law
Lead