Disinformation - Rationale Magazine

28 Aug

The federal government is moving to ban what it calls ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation’ in an initiative similar to legislative mov...

17 Feb

The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22 per cent o...

05 Feb

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is available a...

02 Nov

Godwin’s Law posits that any online argument, if it continues long enough, will inevitably invoke a comparison to Hitler. Per...

25 Oct

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about th...

06 Apr

As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with his efforts to build empire in what...

25 Mar

This article is published in two parts. You can read Part 1 here. Despite George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, ...

24 Mar

There has been much social science research on polarisation recently – some assisted by AI-driven analysis of social media; some of it ...

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