Stand Up Republic Foundation

Founded by @EvanMcMullin & @MindyFinn to strengthen Americans’ commitment to democratic ideals & norms through civic education & leadership development.

[Stand Up Republic Foundation @SURfdn]

We're all on the front lines of an information war, where hostile governments and unscrupulous actors want to spread disinformation. They need your help to do it. So arm yourselves against their attacks and #ThinkBeforeYouClick.

[Molly McKew @MollyMcKew]

As citizens in a highly-connected digital world facing crisis, we must understand that how we engage & amplify information shapes the environment around us—for good or bad.

A call for better information citizenship

1st piece in a new series for @SURfdn

https://t.co/YSX2T9STXl

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With elections rapidly approaching & an ongoing #coronavirus pandemic, it's never been more critical for us all to become savvier citizens of the information environment.

Introducing a new essay series from @MollyMcKew on #DefusingDisinfo. https://t.co/eRS8iDedcl

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"Members of the other party may be your opponents, but within the walls of our democratic constitutional order, they are not your enemy. Where freedom and pluralism reign, you must convince, not overpower."
@dkrauthammer https://t.co/c47JZotwu9

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“[Putin's] much more aggressive and ambitious now that he has found a cost-effective way of inflicting damage on democracy through disinformation and the penetration of the electoral space of democracies that we thought was sacred and secure.” https://t.co/wSBQj60JDI

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In the lead up to 2020, researchers are working to specifically target and identify these videos that distort & misrepresent public figures and prevent them from spreading. Learn more about disinformation here: https://t.co/VNOIdLr4Hc

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Disinformation has found its way into our elections and daily life and we struggle to combat it. A new aspect of disinformation is manipulated and purposely doctored videos known as deep fakes.

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"Mainstream parties moving right, they hypothesise, may legitimise extreme parties and push them into yet more extreme positions—creating a bidding war that mainstreamers cannot win." @TheEconomist https://t.co/7XLaPRSwOD

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"Erdogan has purged the military, the judiciary, the education system and many other institutions, supposedly to root out “terrorists,” but really to silence the opposition." https://t.co/EhAN1sP8Mj

[Amie Stepanovich @astepanovich]

Thanks for the great conversation to my fellow panelists and our hosts

[Mindy Finn @mindyfinn]

Thank you @astepanovich @acarvin @justinhendrix @AshaRangappa_ & @dbryanjones for sharing your expertise with a Capitol Hill audience. For more analysis and solutions from these and other experts, visit https://t.co/oL6Ua01FA5, a project of @SURfdn. Be part of the solution.

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“It’s important to remember that propaganda and disinformation only works when you are unwitting and passively accepting it” @AshaRangappa_ https://t.co/IXIxCB87BH

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“The problem is that officially, from the top, it's a hoax. The public is lead to believe that [disinformation] is not a problem.” @AshaRangappa_ https://t.co/IXIxCB87BH

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“The genie is out of the bottle not just in terms of disinformation but media practices have been out of the bottle for a long time” @acarvin

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“All news organizations have to do a lot of self-reflection, ‘what are we doing to make the problem worse?’ ‘Are we amplifying disinformation, either wittingly or unwittingly?’” @acarvin

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“In many many countries, right now, blood is being shed because of these issues” @justinhendrix https://t.co/IXIxCB87BH

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“What Russia has been able to do is go beyond disseminating this information and start affecting human behavior” @AshaRangappa_

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“It’s important to remember that propeganda and disinformation only works when you are unwitting and passively accepting it” @AshaRangappa_ https://t.co/IXIxCB87BH

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“Privacy tools might force reforms to microtargetting and other advertising techniques often used to spread disinformation.” @astepanovich

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“Tools like WhatsApp rightly protect privacy, but allow for disinformation to spread without any transparency or even data for researchers.” @acarvin https://t.co/IXIxCB87BH

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“These companies were born here, we should be leaders in how to regulate them. Instead we've ceded that role to other countries who may enact policies with unforeseen consequences.” @justinhendrix https://t.co/IXIxCB87BH