Democracy thrives on truth but withers with disinformation. This level explores the responsibility of all actors, from media institutions to individuals – in ensuring citizens have access to accurate information, crucial for honest public discourse and informed participation.
Access to accurate information is a necessity in a democracy.
Censorship — Suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
Propaganda
Truth and reality with Chinese characteristics — The building blocks of the propaganda system enabling CCP information campaigns.
60 Minutes
Censorship — Suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
Centre for Information Resilience
Disinformation
Firing Line
List of videos, interviews, TV events and news clips
Media — Media and democracy
National Constitution Center: We the People — Podcast hosted by the National Constitution Center.
Public Broadcasting Service
Reporters Without Borders — For press freedom.
Shameless Republicans Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
TED Talks — TED Conferences (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a non-profit media organization
Videos, TV programs, interviews and documentaries
Bur Ken Burns — American documentary filmmaker.
Coh Brian Tyler Cohen — American political commentator.
Hoo Margaret Hoover
Res Maria Ressa — Filipino journalist and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Arte
BBC World Service
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Mad Rachel Maddow
Mel Ari Melber
Sch Michael Schmidt
Algorithms — Social Media algorithms: the fuel for the Ugly Web.
Conspiracy theory
Fake accounts on social networks
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
Social Media and Election Integrity
Social media ban — Protecting Our Youth in the Digital Age
Social networks — Social networks and democracy.
Stanford Internet Observatory
DiR Renée DiResta
Bootleggers and Baptists
Conservatism
Conspiracy theory
Cynicism
Death Tax
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Disinformation
Echo chamber
Freedom of speech — Freedom of speech is not what people think it is...
How to talk with victims of disinformation — Placeholder...
Information overload —
Logical fallacies
Observer-expectancy effect (expectation bias)
Orwellian Doublespeak in today's political discourse
Permission Structures
Political discourse — A healthy political discourse is an important part of democratic life.
Politics
Populism
Sarcasm
Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax
Stochastic terrorism — Terrorism randomly incited by divisive discourse.
TrueMedia.org — Fighting disinformation in political campaigns by identifying manipulated media.
Wedge issues
Ken Burns: We need to reach out to Trump voters and not 'other' them
Har Yuval Noah Harari
Jon Jonathan Haidt
Sta Jason Stanley
Artificial Intelligence — What impact can AI have on democracy and social justice?
Data-Pop Alliance — Using data science for development.
Diamond open access
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Open Source Democracy
Quantity of information
Technology and Democracy — The impact of social networks and new technologies on our democracies.
Center for Democracy and Technology
The concept of information is relevant or connected to various concepts, including constraint, communication, control, data, form, education, knowledge, meaning, understanding, mental stimuli, pattern, perception, proposition, representation, and entropy.