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 — A silent assassin of democracy.
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
The Three Media Ecosystems — Three media ecosystems shape democratic life: Mainstream Media (institutional accountability), Attention Media (algorithmic amplification), and Commons Media (collective intelligence). Only the third reconciles the strengths of the other two.
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
International Center for Journalists
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The Poynter Institute — Non-profit journalism school and research organization.
Mad Rachel Maddow
Mel Ari Melber
Sch Michael Schmidt
Fact-checking
Fighting disinfo in MAGA era: Ari Melber talks facts & tech with Microsoft legend Steve Ballmer
The Poynter Institute — Non-profit journalism school and research organization.
USAFacts
Algorithms — Social Media algorithms: the fuel for the Ugly Web.
Conspiracy theory
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
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
Unsafe at Any Age — Social media platforms are harmful by design, not by accident — and the harm is not limited to children. Like automobiles before seatbelts, the danger is engineered into the product.
DiR Renée DiResta
Right Speech replaces Freedom of Speech with a higher standard of democratic discourse. Not a restriction on expression, but an elevation of it — five principles designed into the architecture of platforms, institutions, and civic norms.
Bootleggers and Baptists
Conservatism
Conspiracy theory
Cynicism
Death Tax
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Disinformation — A silent assassin of democracy.
Echo chamber
False Dichotomies — The systematic production of artificial binary oppositions by Single Choice Voting-based political systems. A diagnostic framework within the Pildem Framework.
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
Reclaiming Orwellian Language — When opponents hijack a word and hollow it out, don't abandon it — fill it back up. Reclaiming Orwellian language is a Right Speech practice: restoring words to their true meaning.
Right Speech — Right Speech replaces Freedom of Speech with a higher standard of democratic discourse — five principles that are architectural, not punitive.
Sarcasm
Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax
Stochastic terrorism — Terrorism randomly incited by divisive discourse.
The Last Rites of Freedom of Speech — The chapel is quiet. The light is fading. They come to pay their last respects to Freedom of Speech — and to witness the birth of its successor.
TrueMedia.org — Fighting disinformation in political campaigns by identifying manipulated media.
Unsafe at Any Age — Social media platforms are harmful by design, not by accident — and the harm is not limited to children. Like automobiles before seatbelts, the danger is engineered into the product.
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?
Candidate Accountability — A candidate's past is a window into their future.
Data-Pop Alliance — Using data science for development.
Defamation
Diamond open access
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Open Source Democracy
Quantity of information
Strategic lawsuit against public participation
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.