Early and often: Can real-time intervention by trusted authorities help stop a tsunami of disinformation?
Journal: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
Year: 2018

A tsunami of disinformation is washing over the world, with social media helping it to spread quickly and widely. The purveyors of disinformation use it to press their agenda by adding untruths where previously there were none, fabricating stories, reporting them out of context, or doctoring images to promote their message. In the past, disinformation has been a prelude to and run concurrently with other attacks, including cyber and conventional warfare, and when officials reacted to disinformat