Aric Toler on How Not to Report on Disinformation
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For this week\'s episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Alina Polyakova talked to Aric Toler of Bellingcat, a collective that has quickly become the gold-standard for open source and social media investigations. Aric recently published a blog post in response to a New York Times article on Russian influence campaigns\\u2014one retweeted by former President Barak Obama no less\\u2014that Aric called \\u201cHow Not to Report on Disinformation.\\u201d Evelyn and Alina asked him about the article and what exactly Aric thought was wrong with it as a case study for reporters writing about disinformation operations. When are reporters helping to uncover threats to democracy, and when are they giving oxygen to fringe actors?
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