Joan Donovan

Joan Donovan writes about the Twitter Files and Elon Musk’s failing attempts to shape the media’s narrative. “In fact, what the “Twitter Files” reveal is what we already knew…

Joan Donovan explains the dangers of spreading falsehoods on social media and the challenges with stopping misinformation.

Joan Donovan shares insights on the government's ability to control misinformation on social media.

Joan Donavan and Yochai Benkler share insights on the causes and effects of disinformation

evelyn douek and Joan Donovan comment on Facebook’s response to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Joan Donovan shares findings from her research on vaccine misinformation.

Joan Donovan explores vaccine disinformation and the election.

Joan Donovan discusses “post truth,” press manipulation, and right-wing media lies

BKC community members weigh in on political misinformation

Joan Donovan discusses QAnon with CNN.

Joan Donovan discusses disinformation on YouTube with The Washington Post.

Joan Donovan and colleagues publish a whole-of-society approach to countering spam, scams, and hoaxes

Research from Joan Donovan and colleague shows how right-wing media enabled a disinformation campaign around The 1619 Project

Joan Donovan speaks with NPR

Joan Donovan talks to CNN about political disinformation campaigns.

Joan Donovan in The Verge

Joan Donovan and Jonathan Zittrain weigh in on proposed Section 230 reforms

Joan Donovan discusses QAnon, disinformation, and platform responsibility in Nature.

Joan Donovan draws parallels between Occupy Wall Street and GameStop

Joan Donovan and colleague argue that antitrust enforcement will hold platforms accountable

Joan Donovan describes how disinformation can contribute to radicalization in The New Yorker.

Joan Donovan and Rob Faris pen op-ed calling for media accountability

Joan Donovan discusses the Capitol attack and disinformation

Politico interviews Joan Donovan about misinformation

Joan Donovan and colleague warn against using facial recognition technology in Slate

Joan Donovan and colleagues say the storm on the Capitol was the culmination of a presidency defined by media manipulation and networked conspiracism

Joan Donovan on what lawmakers and companies need to do to address the weaponization of social media and disinformation

Joan Donovan shares four tips for journalists covering pro-Trump rallies and far-right groups for Journalist’s Resource.

Joan Donovan joins Marketplace Tech podcast

Joan Donovan in MIT Technology Review

Joan Donovan speaks with NBC News

NiemanLab shares takeaways from Joan Donovan’s BKC webinar

Joan Donovan comments on platform approaches to harassment and what it means for researchers

Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which masks the true costs of misinformation

Joan Donovan comments on Facebook’s takedown efforts during the election

Joan Donovan discusses misinformation in the wake of the 2020 US presidential election.

Joan Donovan joins the Today show to talk about disinformation.

Joan Donovan talks to the New York Times about election misinformation.

Joan Donovan explains recent disinformation campaigns

A new resource from Joan Donovan and the Shorenstein Center was featured in a newsletter from The Washington Post.

Joan Donovan asks, “when does a meme become disinformation?”

Joan Donovan profiled by New York Times for her work on disinformation

“We cannot build a healthy democracy on top of an ailing communication system”

Jonathan Zittrain, Danielle Citron, and Joan Donovan provide expert commentary

Joan Donovan discusses new article on platform design and disinformation

Joan Donovan says social media sites can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites.

Joan Donovan and Jonas Kaiser discuss challenges with studying automated bots on social media

Joan Donovan talks to NPR about riot rumors and disinformation

Joan Donovan says misinformation about police brutality protests is being spread by the same sources as covid-19 denial.

Joan Donovan talks with NBC News

Joan Donovan explains the power social media has in spreading misinformation

The many different groups and individuals that spread false information.

Joan Donovan weighs in on Twitter creating a carve-out for public leaders

Joan Donovan weighs in on targeted ads on social media

A new paper co-authored by BKC affiliate Joan Donovan explores tactics of disinformation to show how platform design and decentralized communication contribute to advancing the…

Pandemic conspiracy theorists are using the Wayback Machine to promote “zombie content” that evades moderators and fact-checkers

The pandemic lays bare the failure to quarantine online scams, hoaxes and lies amid political battles.

Journalists must cut through rampant disinformation around the pandemic to robustly report on efforts to suppress voting and delegitimize election results writes Joan Donovan

Joan Donovan on the dozens, if not hundreds of scams that have popped up online as quickly as the coronavirus itself

That’s a Dangerous Idea

Facing the prospect that hoaxes or misinformation could worsen a global pandemic, tech platforms are taking control of the information ecosystem like never before.

With millions on lockdown, Facebook and Twitter are major sources of Covid-19 news. They’re also where misinformation thrives. How can platforms step up?

Misleading text messages claiming that President Trump was going to announce a national quarantine buzzed into cellphones across the country over the weekend, underscoring how…

A video of Joe Biden that was deceptively edited to make it appear as if he endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election triggered warning labels from Twitter and Facebook

Dozens of public and private Facebook groups totaling hundreds of thousands of members have become a haven for conspiracy theories, medical equipment promotion and unproven cures.

BKC affiliate Joan Donovan spoke at the Knight Media Forum

The specificity of both Twitter and Facebook’s rules around disinformation leave room for known disinformation agents to work during elections, said Joan Donovan.

Joan Donovan and Natalie Gyenes spoke to NBC News about the coronavirus and misinformation

Joan Donovan spoke to The Washington Post about the coronavirus and misinformation.

Joan Donovan participated in a panel of scholars who study media manipulation, digital resources, and the spread of misinformation on how to spot “fake news” in an age of…

Joan Donovan talks with Mathew Ingram of Columbia Journalism Review

Joan Donovan shares insights on a recently released report on high school students’ views on First Amendment protections

Joan Donovan and Elizabeth Dubois weigh in

Joan Donovan describes content moderation in the context of a tech stack

Memes come off as a joke, but some people are starting to see them as the serious threat they are.

During election season, journalists should be ready for even more sophisticated attempts to plant false narratives and to spin disinformation via legitimate news stories

Joan Donovan explains how digital information is weaponized

Data & Society report aims to create a taxonomy of trolling tactics.

Data & Society report uses case studies to illustrate four main techniques of source hacking

People posting a pseudo-legal declaration may believe they're in a two-way dialogue with the company. The opposite is true.

An exploration of what happens when politically motivated humans impersonate vulnerable people or populations online to exploit their voices, positionality and power.

BKC affiliate responds to El Paso shooting, use of manifestos as a tactic, and explains how extremists manipulate the media to control public conversation

While we often think about those who commit mass violence as acting individually, we must reckon with the fact that these extremists are never alone online.

A report that the Epstein was injured in jail dredged up a conspiracy theory about the Clintons — and thanks to a hashtag, the baseless rumor likely has a whole lot of new…

Q&A with Journalist’s Resource offers advice for journalists

Twitter has ceded responsibility for governing its own platform to its most prolific and controversial user, says BKC affiliate Joan Donovan.

What happens when white supremacists on the hate site Stormfront learn that they’re not as white as they thought? Two researchers investigated.

White supremacists exploit the weaknesses in the social-media ecosystem as Facebook and Google struggle to keep up.