Vanessa Molter

@vanessa_molter

Study International Security in East Asia and Online Harm . Stanford Internet Observatory.

Stanford, CA
Joined May 2019
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    Mar 19

    🚨New post: Propaganda & Pandemics - How Chinese State Media Shapes Conversations on The Coronavirus We analyzed Facebook data to see how Beijing is using its English-language state media to shape the narrative around coronavirus. Some observations:

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  2. 16 hours ago

    5. Finally, false narratives on the origin of COVID-19 remain widespread. Social media companies need to keep proactively removing COVID-19 disinformation, citizens and journalists should question the intentions of online actors before possibly amplifying misleading voices. /End

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  3. 16 hours ago

    4. Platforms are proactively removing COVID-19 disinformation (good!). YouTube for example adjusted its search algorithm to remove conspiratorial autocomplete suggestions. Compare autocomplete screenshots from March 31 and March 22 for 新冠病毒 ("novel coronavirus"):

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  4. 16 hours ago

    3. U.S. officials and far-right media engage in unfounded conspiracy theorizing on the origin of COVID-19 too. Here is an article published by the Washington Times today, linking the origin of the virus to the Wuhan CDC:

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  5. 16 hours ago

    2. Chinese state media has crafted various narratives about the pandemic over time, carrying sometimes conflicting theories. One trend: shifting from suspicions of the exact animal origin (late January) to suspicions about the geographic origin of the virus (late February).

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  6. 16 hours ago

    1. Groundless speculation about a U.S. military involvement in the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic did not begin with Zhao: We found evidence of social media users floating the idea as early as January 2020.

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  7. 16 hours ago

    🚨New Post: Coronavirus Conspiracy Claims: What's Behind a Chinese Diplomat’s COVID-19 Misdirection and I searched Chinese state media & social media platforms to analyze allegations of U.S. military involvement in the origin of COVID-19:

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  8. Mar 30

    Taiwan folks: Do you know about any allegations/proof of TV channel EBC (東森電視) or the owner Chang Kao-hsiang (張高祥) having close ties with the government in Beijing?

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  9. Mar 28

    8. Finally, a picture of some flowers I saw on my walk to cheer you up:

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  10. Mar 28

    7. I hope these measures will soon have a significant effect on the number of new infections and we can .

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  11. Mar 28

    6. I am a bit relieved after seeing how people are (finally) taking this seriously despite us not being on lockdown. Also glad that despite some general anxiety, people are friendly, patient, and keeping their distance.

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  12. Mar 28

    5. Cashiers are protected by make-shift plastic curtains and shields, cash payments are discouraged.

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  13. Mar 28

    4. Of course, bread and toilet paper are sold out (this is Germany after all).

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  14. Mar 28

    3. Certain items, including soap and toilet paper (of course) are only sold in small quantities to shoppers. Interesting that even pasta (“Teigwaren”) and crackers are restricted.

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  15. Mar 28

    2. Reminders to keep at least a 1.5m (about 5ft) distance from fellow shoppers and staff everywhere:

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  16. Mar 28

    1. Security guards at the entrance deciding who can enter when. Everyone is very friendly, we did not need to wait.

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  17. Mar 28

    I have been self-isolating after coming back to Germany from California two weeks ago. Today I went grocery shopping for the first time since coming here, this is what it was like:

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  18. Retweeted
    Mar 26

    Deze week in : het diplomatieke offensief van China. Hoe Beijing zijn naam probeert te zuiveren met mondmaskers en fake news. Met kundig commentaar van , en .

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  19. Retweeted
    Mar 20

    Going forward, the combination of franchising & virtually-undetectable financial support will make gauging authenticity of media outlets harder for disinfo researchers, & will create tough decisions for platforms about whether behavior violates their terms of service.

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  20. Retweeted
    Mar 20

    Today my Stanford Internet Observatory team is publishing a 📝on Russian activities in Libya based on leaked documents: Prigozhin-linked entities working to influence broadcast media

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  21. Mar 20

    See also the most recent SIO live discussion with on this topic (+ additional thoughts)

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