Jane Lytvynenko on Debunking the Disinformation Garbage Fire
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This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jane Lytvynenko, a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News who focuses on disinformation. If you use Twitter regularly and have looked at the platform during any major media events\\u2014disasters, protests, you name it\\u2014you\\u2019ve likely seen her enormous tweet threads where she debunks hoaxes and misinformation. Recently, she\\u2019s turned her debunking skills toward misinformation and disinformation around the coronavirus pandemic, reporting on the various \\u201cfake experts\\u201d peddling misleading stories about the virus and the long half-life of the conspiratorial \\u201cPlandemic\\u201d video. She\\u2019s also written on the rise of \\u201cdisinformation for hire\\u201d\\u2014PR firms that turn to disinformation as a marketing tool. So what is it like to report on disinformation and misinformation in real time? How can journalists help readers understand and spot that bad information? And, is there any cause to be optimistic?
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