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Facts and their Discontents: A Research Agenda for Online Disinformation, Race, and Gender

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  • Thakur, Dhanaraj
  • Madrigal, DeVan Hankerson

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The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol demonstrated how online disinformation can have severe offline consequences. For some time, the problems and possible impacts on democracy caused by online mis- and dis-information have dominated public policy discussions and thus research about these topics has developed rapidly in the last few years. However, this research generally lacks a focus on the impact of disinformation and misinformation on people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ communities, and other voices that are less prominent in mainstream political discourse in the U.S. Many disinformation campaigns are specifically designed with racist and/or misogynistic content, suggesting that disinformation is a tool used to promote ideologies like white supremacy and patriarchy. In September 2020, CDT brought together an interdisciplinary and international group of experts to share and discuss research on this issue. This report presents some of those ideas and builds upon them to identify key research opportunities, including important unresolved questions around the intersections of online disinformation, race, and gender. This report also makes recommendations for how to tackle the related methodological and technical problems that researchers and others face in addressing these topics. This is important in generating research that will be directly relevant for developing policy solutions to address disinformation.

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  • Thakur, Dhanaraj & Madrigal, DeVan Hankerson, 2021. "Facts and their Discontents: A Research Agenda for Online Disinformation, Race, and Gender," OSF Preprints 3e8s5, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/3e8s5
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    1. Marsden, Christopher T & Brown, Ian & Veale, Michael, 2020. "Disinformation and digital dominance: Regulation through the lens of the election lifecycle," LawArXiv aerw9, Center for Open Science.
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