Articles By
Grégoire Darcy
Disinformation in practice: Threats, actors, mechanisms, and constraints according to practitioners
Grégoire Darcy and Sacha Altay
How do the practitioners charged with fighting disinformation understand the problem they are meant to solve? We surveyed 106 French practitioners across military, government, regulatory, civil-society, and media organizations. These practitioners converge on an upstream, supply-side diagnosis (platforms and amplification structures, rather than public demand, drive the spread of disinformation) but describe a field blocked by weak coordination, scarce resources, and fear of censorship accusations.