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What to Do If You See Disinformation

The following is an email from Lucia Nilda and the Free Press team that contains helpful information in working through these days, weeks and months as we work to undo the damage to truth that took place over the last four years.

In the past year, online hate and disinformation took center stage as one of the biggest issues of the internet era. In the United States, COVID-19 disinformation has contributed to an already staggering death toll, and now vaccine disinformation is on the rise. Election disinformation (and the politicians who spread it) helped spur an attempted coup and racist attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Disinformation is a huge problem that’s not going away after Inauguration Day. But there are a few things you can do to stop disinformation when you see it online:


Through our work with the Change the Terms coalition(1), we’ve outlined policies that social-media companies can implement to curb disinformation and the dangerous consequences it can have. Platforms from Facebook to YouTube must do more to stop disinformation and hate online. And there’s a role for each of us to play in making this happen.

(1) “Recommended Policies,” Change the Terms

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