Articles By
Alice Marwick
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Commentary
Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics
Rachel Kuo and Alice Marwick
This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United States, identity, particularly race, plays a key role in the messages and strategies of disinformation producers and who disinformation and misinformation resonates with.