Disinformation - Rationale Magazine

26 Apr

Countering this election’s climate misinformation campaigns

26/04/2025
By Libby Lester
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Australia’s climate and energy wars are at the forefront of the federal election campaign as the major parties outline vastly different...

28 Nov

Law & Politics

Why regulating speech is an ethical minefield

28/11/2024
By Hugh Breakey
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Misinformation and disinformation are major concerns worldwide. The federal government’s misinformation bill aimed to res...

28 Aug

Law & Politics

The new threat to freedom of expression

30/08/2023
By David James
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The federal government is moving to ban what it calls ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation’ in an initiative similar to legislative mov...

17 Feb

Law & Politics

The spread of QAnon beyond the United States

17/02/2023
By Robert Dover
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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

Education

The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

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

History

How Hitler conspiracies and other Holocaust disinformation undermine democratic institutions

03/11/2022
By Carson Phillips
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Godwin’s Law posits that any online argument, if it continues long enough, will inevitably invoke a comparison to Hitler. Per...

25 Oct

Law & Politics

Why ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

25/10/2022
By Chris Fleming
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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

Law & Politics

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

22/07/2022
By Richard Lachman
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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

Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 2)

22/07/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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This article is published in two parts. You can read Part 1 here. Despite George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, ...

24 Mar

Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 1)

22/07/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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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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