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Background reading on the state of disinformation in the United States. Many of these appeared around the time of the 2016 election, and we've included other more recent reports as well.

Fake news and the spread of misinformationFrom the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, links to peer-reviewed articles.

NiemanReports: Election '16: Lessons for JournalismFrom the Nieman Foundation at Harvard; several articles on fake news and news literacy

Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online ReasoningStanford University study on high school and college students' (lack of) news literacy

Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and MisinformationReport from Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University

The Science of Fake NewsScience, March 9 2018 ($)Multi-author article on the science behind why disinformation campaigns are effective. Unfortunately, this is behind a paywall; the link will work for Harvard affiliates.

Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics(2018, Oxford University Press)A book from the Berkman Klein Center on media coverage of the 2016 US Presidential election; the online version is free of charge.

The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media ManipulationUniversity of Oxford report on the use of disinformation campaigns by national governments.

A Guide to Anti-Misinformation Efforts Around the World2018 report on stepscountries around the world are taking to combat disinformation campaigns.

Disinformation and the 2020 ElectionOne in a series of report from NYU's Stern Center on Business and Human Rights, on the role of social media in the 2020 election.

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