Repress/redress: What the “war on terror” can teach us about fighting misinformation
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Abrahams, A.
Lim, G.
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Abrahams, A., G. Lim. "Repress/redress: What the “war on terror” can teach us about fighting misinformation." The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 1, no. 3 (2020). DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-018Abstract
Misinformation, like terrorism, thrives where trust in conventional authorities has eroded. An informed policy response must therefore complement efforts to repress misinformation with efforts to redress loss of trust. At present, however, we are repeating the mistakes of the war on terror, prioritizing repressive, technologically deterministic solutions while failing to redress the root sociopolitical grievances that cultivate our receptivity to misinformation in the first place.Terms of Use
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