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DESCRIPTION:Recent public attention and debate around “fake news” has highl
 ighted the growing challenge of determining information veracity online. Th
 is is a complex and dynamic problem at the intersection of technology\, hum
 an cognition\, and human behavior—i.e. our strategies and heuristics for ma
 king sense of information may make us vulnerable\, especially within online
  spaces\, to absorbing and passing along misinformation. Increasingly\, it 
 appears that certain actors are exploiting these vulnerabilities\, spreadin
 g intentional misinformation—or disinformation—for various purposes\, inclu
 ding geopolitical goals. This talk explores some of the motivations and tac
 tics of disinformation\, explaining how geopolitical actors use social medi
 a and the surrounding information ecosystem to sow doubt and division.\n\nK
 ate Starbird is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Centered 
 Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Kate's re
 search is situated within human-computer interaction (HCI) and the emerging
  field of crisis informatics—the study of the how information-communication
  technologies (ICTs) are used during crisis events. One aspect of her resea
 rch focuses on how online rumors spread—and how online rumors are corrected
 —during natural disasters and man-made crisis events. More recently\, she h
 as begun to focus on the propagation of disinformation and political propag
 anda through online spaces. Kate earned her PhD from the University of Colo
 rado at Boulder in Technology\, Media and Society and holds a BS in Compute
 r Science from Stanford University.\n\nHost: Prof. Daniela Rus
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LOCATION:MIT Stata Center\, 32-123/Kirsch Auditorium
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SUMMARY:CSAIL Hot Topics in Computing - Muddied Waters: Online Disinformati
 on During Crisis 
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URL:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/hot_topics_in_computing_-_muddied_waters
 _online_disinformation_during_crisis_events
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