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  1. Better, Stronger, Faster

    Other This text file from the Cult of the Dead Cow describes the NBC Dateline episode that featured the mysterious hacker "Quentin"...

  2. Dateline on Computer Hacking

    Video In this NBC Dateline episode from 1992, the hosts expose how hackers are easily able to break into the computer systems...

  3. Disinformation

    Video In this video from the 1990s, members of the hacking group the Cult of the Dead Cow comment on where they...

  4. HoHoCon 1992 Miscellany

    Article This text file describes how "Project Green Cheese" came up at HoHoCon 1992. For context, this text file should be considered...

  5. How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated

    Article In this article from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files, the authors describe how despite Facebook's best efforts to promote true...

  6. How Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories

    Article This article describes how a hacking group targeted Eastern European countries with disinformation campaigns. Their strategy was to hack the content...

  7. How Jair Bolsonaro used ‘fake news’ to win power

    Article This article tells the story of how Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in 2018. His campaign strategy involved the...

  8. How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America

    Article This article describes how the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian propaganda wing, infiltrated American social media users’ feeds with...

  9. How to Fight Fake News on Vaccines

    Video This video explains how misinformation spread about the HPV vaccine and how one woman with cervical cancer fought to reverse that...

  10. How WhatsApp Destroyed a Village

    Article This article discusses how false information about child abductions circulating WhatsApp in India caused at least 29 deaths from people attacking...

  11. Memetic Warfare Lecture Slides

    Lecture / slides Slides for Lecture 15 of Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science department. In this lecture, the following...

  12. On the Virtual Frontier of the Imagination

    Book In this book chapter, Walter Scheirer discusses a very early instance of faking the news in which a group of...

  13. Photoshop Fantasies

    Book In this piece, Walter Scheirer discusses the history of image manipulation. Although image manipulation is generally considered to be dishonest, Scheirer...

  14. Qanon Deploys 'Information Warfare' to Influence the 2020 Election

    Article This article describes how the Qanon conspiracy theories infliltrate social media. The article argues that the spread of Qanon content signals a...

  15. Scheirer on Fake Content

    Video In this video, Walter Scheirer talks about his research and insight into fake content on the internet, today and throughout its...

  16. The Alt-Right Are Savvy Internet Users. Stop Letting Them Surprise You

    Article In this article, the author discusses how far-right influencers gain popularity on YouTube through gaming the "attention economy." The author...

  17. The United States Isn't Doomed to Lose the Information Wars

    Article In this article, Doowan Lee discusses the ways China and Russia have launched disinformation attacks online and suggests a few...

  18. Trust the News? Lecture Slides

    Lecture / slides In these lecture slides for the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department, the following...

  19. Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait

    Article This article details how Twitter emailed all users who interacted with accounts confirmed to be from the Russian troll farm that meddled...

  20. UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it

    Article In this article, the author discusses Kate Starbird, a professor at the University of Washington, and her study of conspiracy theories...

  21. We desperately need a way to defend against online propaganda

    Article This article describes how fake news spreads on social media, why "not feeding the trolls" isn't a sufficient solution, and why...

  22. Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar

    Article In this article, Steve Secklow investigates why Facebook is failing to curb the spread of hate speech against ethnic minorities...