Martin Moore

📢 EVENT How is news being used to dictate reality? Join Dr @ThomasColley and Dr @martinjemoore at the launch of 'Dictating Reality' - their new book examining how states are battling to control and shape the news. 📅 20 Nov 🕧 18.15 BOOKINGS 🔗 bit.ly/480N06n

Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News, by me & @martinjemoore is out! See Martin's brilliant unboxing video: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdsBRCYm. Use code CUP20 for 20% off - tinyurl.com/3ddh79yn. @ColumbiaUP @warstudies #disinformation #news #journalism @LSW_RMAS

Jean Seaton and I edited a special issue of ⁦@po_qu⁩ on the future of PSB with introductory essay by Mark Thompson. Thanks to so many thoughtful, distinguished contributors. ⁦@DianeCoyle1859⁩ ⁦@sambrook⁩ ⁦@martinjemoore⁩ et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x/2…

🆕Fake and bot accounts on social media have the potential to cause significant political, economic, and social harms and should be subject to rigorous and independent audits 📱🤖 Read new research from @martinjemoore here ⤵️ kcl.ac.uk/news/independe…

As @georgeprof writes, if you’re a small news publisher and are interested in charity registration, please get in touch with the CJP pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analys…

There should be an International Observatory on Information and Democracy. Along with 100 researchers, I support the call from the Forum on Information & Democracy. Call and signatories at: informationdemocracy.org/2023/05/17/the… #InformationDemocracy

10/10 Why is there such uncertainty and how should we respond? See my article for @PolicyR (open access): policyreview.info/articles/analy…

9/10 If number of inauthentic accounts found to be much higher than reported it could precipitate a ‘subprime attention crisis’ (Hwang, 2020)

1/10 There’s lots of epistemic uncertainty about the number & nature of social media accounts on major platforms (as Elon Musk noted when he was buying Twitter)… [thread]

*New* article by me just published @PolicyR: 'Fake accounts on social media, epistemic uncertainty and the need for an independent auditing of accounts' policyreview.info/articles/analy…

Willing suspensions of disbelief

New open access article by me and @martinjemoore on how Chinese media covered the 2020 US #election & #Capitol riots. CGTN coverage very critical of the US, but we found little effort to influence the election. bit.ly/3RWjyUF @warstudies @LSW_RMAS @Kingspol_econ

*New* journal article just published [open access] - by @ThomasColley and me - which looks at whether China used its state-sponsored media to influence the process or outcome of the 2020 US election tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…