Taraneh Azar

“Internet reporter” specializing in online communities and viral content. Formerly with @USATODAY Investigations, @NBCInvestigates @NBCNews. Meme-scholar

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Spoke with @BostonJoan and @shahinmilani81 who offered incredibly valuable insights on both the nature of misinformation online in the context of social movements as well as the structure of Iran’s institutional media landscape for this reporting

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While social media is a critical tool for sharing high-quality information in the face of Iran’s heavily censored state-controlled media, it’s imperative to catch misinformation online as it proliferates. New piece up for @guardian today https://t.co/BSh5RAqqYf

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Social media can be an essential tool during major news stories, but inaccurate information can get in the way of facts and be dangerous. Remember to always check the facts before reposting something online

#MediaLiteracy #misinformation
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Tap in. These are the conversations we NEED to be having

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Tune in **tomorrow** for a conversation on memes, political messaging and communication in the digital age with @BadMemeLab2 🤘

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Join us this Saturday for a talk with @taranehtazar in person at Bard’s Experimental Humanities Center or online at https://t.co/psoBbxz00X

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Thank you everyone who tuned in for our conversation on memes and disinformation today and many thanks to @wiczipedia and @BostonJoan for an insightful conversation on meme warfare and propagandized messaging in the digital age. Recording below if you missed it!

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https://t.co/urzU56MaOF

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@dogood_sortof @USATODAY @aleszubajak Actually yeah, that’s pretty much how it went 😂

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Spent months analyzing thousands of memes and countless screeds on topics from the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search, Jan. 6, COVID-19 and more for an investigation into the role of memes in spreading disinformation for @USATODAY w @aleszubajak contributing.

https://t.co/BvcJsQqZ6z

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Join our Twitter Space at 4 p.m. ET to discuss how memes can be weaponized as digital propaganda to spread disinformation: https://t.co/urzU56LCZ7

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Hoping on in an hour for a conversation with @BostonJoan and @wiczipedia. Tune in to learn more about the role of memes in spreading disinformation, especially ahead of the U.S. midterm elections

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For more on this topic, join our Twitter Spaces conversation today at 4 p.m. ET. Taraneh Azar will be talking further with experts Nina Jankowicz and Joan Donovan about memes, disinformation and what you can do when sharing information online.

https://t.co/urzU56MaOF

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USA TODAY reviewed thousands of Internet memes ranging from the Jan. 6 hearings to conspiracy theories concerning 5G and Jewish space lasers.

Here’s how such memes have played a key role in almost every disinformation campaign of the digital age. https://t.co/VHFDf9vzPA

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Had the chance to speak with some of the leading disinformation and memetic scholars and best in the business for this investigation, including @BostonJoan @wiczipedia, @coolfacejane, @jhblackb, @rmmilner, @MeganSquire0 and more.

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@USATODAY @aleszubajak Hosting a Spaces for @USATODAY at 4pm ET today with @wiczipedia, author of "How to Lose the Information War" and @BostonJoan who just dropped the legendary book "Meme Wars." Tune in for a discussion on memes and disinformation

https://t.co/GJ3GQJpBgs

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And Taraneh did an awesome job talking to some of the best voices on memes and their real-world consequences.

Please join @taranehtazar, @BostonJoan and @wiczipedia on a @USATODAY Twitter spaces today at 4pm ET:

https://t.co/4YG3boLDI9

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Are memes driving polarization? We looked at thousands used to sow distrust over the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search, Jan. 6, COVID-19 and more.

@taranehtazar has an excellent feature out today on the weaponization of memes, to which I was proud to contribute.

https://t.co/V8kbPNpTS1

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🚨NEW🚨: My analysis of 2.8 million tweets posted by Congress since 2011 shows the parties increasingly segregating into distinct rhetorical bubbles.

In effect, Republicans and Democrats are no longer speaking the same language.

Lots to unpack: 🧵

https://t.co/3lWVM4XjmJ

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About a month late in sharing this but my latest album A Fleeting Feeling was featured in @Dazed’s new music Fridays roundup <3 tysm @gunseli_yal 🥳 https://t.co/0ncDxpjdrk

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@IwriteOK Hey Robert, working on a piece involving Kekistan. You down to chat? Dm me please!

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@npenzenstadler @amy_pyle Lol, gold