Victoria Smith This year, DISARM has hosted a series of workshops exploring countermeasures to online harms. The workshop series is generously supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The objective of the workshops is to gather feedback on the types of countermeasures used to counter online disinformation and other harms, and how…

Victoria Smith This year, DISARM has hosted a series of workshops exploring countermeasures to online harms. The workshop series is generously supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The objective of the workshops is to gather feedback on the types of countermeasures used to counter online disinformation and other harms, and how…

Victoria Smith This year, DISARM has hosted a series of workshops exploring countermeasures to online harms. The workshop series is generously supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The objective of the workshops is to gather feedback on the types of countermeasures used to counter online disinformation and other harms, and how…

Victoria Smith This year, DISARM has hosted six workshops exploring countermeasures to online harms. The workshop series is generously supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The objective of the workshops is to gather feedback on the types of countermeasures used to counter online disinformation and other harms, and how to make…

When faced with disinformation, responders can approach the problem from a variety of standpoints. Matching the response to the incident or campaign is a key first step in effectively countering disinformation, but frequently relies on intuition rather than a principles-based analytic approach. This can get complicated, as seen above. We…

Disinformation response is a complex undertaking, with a lot of moving parts. Below, we’ll outline six key considerations that can be used as a basis for planning and carrying out a campaign to counter disinformation at any scale. The key considerations are: Take a risk-based approach to disinformation and your…

Risk is just something that happens in life. We drive, we could crash; we cook, we might burn ourselves… Risk is also something that’s been big in my life, although for me it’s not so much managing the things that could go wrong when I work and travel, but more a lifetime of studying risks in different contexts, and working out how to predict, manage, mitigate, and recover from…