Reckoning with Mis/Disinformation in 2024 (series)
A reflection series revisiting a decade of mis/disinformation research in the context of the 2024 US election, examining how platform information systems continue to be gamed.
Executive summary
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This Data & Society series revisits roughly a decade of misinformation and disinformation research through the lens of the 2024 US election cycle, examining how the information ecosystems and platform mechanics studied since the mid-2010s continue to be manipulated. The original source page was unavailable at the time of review, so this summary relies on the publisher's framing and the series' stated scope rather than a direct reading of its content.
The series is presented as a reflective retrospective rather than a single empirical study, bringing together contributors to reassess earlier assumptions about how mis- and disinformation spread, who is affected, and which platform and policy interventions have or have not held up over time.
As a synthesis piece, it does not appear to introduce new primary data collection but instead consolidates prior research and commentary to ask what a decade of study has clarified, or left unresolved, about disinformation dynamics heading into a major US election year.
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