From Our Fellows: Envisioning a Healthy Information Ecosystem

Fighting disinformation has become one of the leading concerns of governments and donors, spurred the creation of new programs and scholarship, and fueled by new legal regulatory and platform policies. The field of mis- and disinformation has been called too big to fail, despite recognition of the definitional challenges and limitations it has spurred, the lack of scientific knowledge and consensus about effective interventions, its Anglocentric viewpoint that obscures historical, economic, and technological factors including the legacy of imperialism, colonialism, and structural inequality...