In Germany, TikTok accounts impersonated prominent political figures during the country’s last national election. In Colombia, misleading TikTok posts falsely attributed a quotation from one candidate to a cartoon villain.
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Disinformation, Postreality and the Midterms, Curated by Jesse Damiani
New technologies play a powerful role in elections. Information—accurate or not—travels faster than ever, across channels that are only partially understood. Bad actors use these capabilities to sow division and confusion, but the bigger picture is messier and more complex. In my upcoming book "Postreality," I explore how algorithmic culture is reshaping our sense of collective reality. These articles spotlight the relationship between information, democracy and reality creation.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already fueled some nascent misinformation tactics, including the spread of realistic video game footage and the use of TikTok to create fake war zone livestreams.
Thousands of players flocked to a digital world filled with draconian rules, slavery, and anti-Semitism—and tested how far “just a game” can go.
The lab is using blockchain to preserve the USC Shoah Foundation’s Holocaust archive, document the war in Ukraine, and restore trust online.
A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.
Nearly 50 migrants, many from Venezuela, found themselves unexpectedly in Martha's Vineyard last month, part of a political stunt by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis meant to protest US President Joe Biden's immigration policy. Some migrants said they'd been told by a woman -- who has since …
In North Macedonia, there’s a small industry of websites publishing misleading and inflammatory political articles targeted at US readers.
Tracing the “false flag” claim back to a pro-Assad website.
TikTok’s explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity. But nothing goes viral like rage.
America owes its existence, at least in part, to conspiracy thinking.
About the Curator
Jesse Damiani is a curator, writer and advisor in new media art and emerging technologies. He is the founder of Postreality Labs, a strategic sensemaking studio based in Los Angeles. He is Curator & Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum, an affiliate of the metaLAB at Harvard, and a Research Affiliate at Institute for the Future. He curates the XR summit at the Games for Change Festival, and his writing appears in Billboard, Forbes, NBC News, The Verge and WIRED.
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