[cctop]

I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

[cctop]

I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

[thatboy]

I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

[thatboy]

I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

[gailtate]

I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

[gailtate]

I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

[PersonalLegend]

With publicity comes harassment.  I’m sure that a similarly objective view of misinformation leading up to the 2020 election would be met with similar harassment from “the other side.”  Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

Starbird. What an amazing athlete.

[PersonalLegend]

With publicity comes harassment.  I’m sure that a similarly objective view of misinformation leading up to the 2020 election would be met with similar harassment from “the other side.”  Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

Starbird. What an amazing athlete.

[newguy]

since i don't follow women's basketball too closely, i didnt know that she was Naismith College Player of the Year in 1997.
but how dare she conduct research related to her PhD thesis!!!

[newguy]

since i don't follow women's basketball too closely, i didnt know that she was Naismith College Player of the Year in 1997.
but how dare she conduct research related to her PhD thesis!!!

[cardcrimson]

With publicity comes harassment.  I’m sure that a similarly objective view of misinformation leading up to the 2020 election would be met with similar harassment from “the other side.”  Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

Starbird. What an amazing athlete.

Don't use twitter often and when I clicked on the above link there were a list of trending tweets alongside Kate's tweets. To your point, I found it ironic that lead trending tweet was a link to a WAPO story that the feds now have enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden. . . .

[cardcrimson]

With publicity comes harassment.  I’m sure that a similarly objective view of misinformation leading up to the 2020 election would be met with similar harassment from “the other side.”  Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

Starbird. What an amazing athlete.

Don't use twitter often and when I clicked on the above link there were a list of trending tweets alongside Kate's tweets. To your point, I found it ironic that lead trending tweet was a link to a WAPO story that the feds now have enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden. . . .

[triangle2]

Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

But significant that the harassers are filing bad faith public disclosure requests requiring her and colleagues to waste hours of time responding. I noted with approval that Starbird analogized this to a denial of service attack. If you teach at a public university in a state with an ‘open records’ statute, you don’t get to choose not to answer.

[triangle2]

Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

But significant that the harassers are filing bad faith public disclosure requests requiring her and colleagues to waste hours of time responding. I noted with approval that Starbird analogized this to a denial of service attack. If you teach at a public university in a state with an ‘open records’ statute, you don’t get to choose not to answer.

[81alum]

As a political scientist I've come across Kate's research in several contexts, and I find it fascinating precisely because it is not political in the evaluative sense.  In fact, she is far away even from my own discipline--she comes from computer science and engineering, and is applying techniques she learned from these technical fields to study the specific ways in which propaganda and disinformation spread through online networks.  Her work has implications for comm studies, marketing, and political science as much as for engineering and computer science.  I'm sure she will make full Professor very soon, and I would not be surprised if once she does elite universities will try to lure her away from Washington.  I think it would be great if Stanford were first in line.

Not bad for the #4 scorer in Stanford WBB history.

[81alum]

As a political scientist I've come across Kate's research in several contexts, and I find it fascinating precisely because it is not political in the evaluative sense.  In fact, she is far away even from my own discipline--she comes from computer science and engineering, and is applying techniques she learned from these technical fields to study the specific ways in which propaganda and disinformation spread through online networks.  Her work has implications for comm studies, marketing, and political science as much as for engineering and computer science.  I'm sure she will make full Professor very soon, and I would not be surprised if once she does elite universities will try to lure her away from Washington.  I think it would be great if Stanford were first in line.

Not bad for the #4 scorer in Stanford WBB history.

[PersonalLegend]

Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

But significant that the harassers are filing bad faith public disclosure requests requiring her and colleagues to waste hours of time responding. I noted with approval that Starbird analogized this to a denial of service attack. If you teach at a public university in a state with an ‘open records’ statute, you don’t get to choose not to answer.

Good point.  Statutory harassment.  There ought to be a law against it.  :-)

[PersonalLegend]

Sad state of affairs but she does have the option not to participate. Online threats are psychological harassment just like a harassing phone call. One can choose not to answer. 

But significant that the harassers are filing bad faith public disclosure requests requiring her and colleagues to waste hours of time responding. I noted with approval that Starbird analogized this to a denial of service attack. If you teach at a public university in a state with an ‘open records’ statute, you don’t get to choose not to answer.

Good point.  Statutory harassment.  There ought to be a law against it.  :-)

[Canalejas]

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-...l-attacks/

[Canalejas]

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-...l-attacks/

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I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

Yes.  Both internet disinformation and on-line harassment are common things.  And are only going to get worse.

[lex24]

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I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

Yes.  Both internet disinformation and on-line harassment are common things.  And are only going to get worse.

[gailtate]

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I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

Yes.  Both internet disinformation and on-line harassment are common things.  And are only going to get worse.

Both have been around forever. Technology just amplifies it out of all proportion. To the delight of sociopath trolls.

[gailtate]

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I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

Yes.  Both internet disinformation and on-line harassment are common things.  And are only going to get worse.

Both have been around forever. Technology just amplifies it out of all proportion. To the delight of sociopath trolls.

[CliffSpeed]

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I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

Yes.  Both internet disinformation and on-line harassment are common things.  And are only going to get worse.

Both have been around forever. Technology just amplifies it out of all proportion. To the delight of sociopath trolls.

I wonder if the disinformation scientists ever study "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

[CliffSpeed]

1665130305[/url]']

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I don't know if it's possible to discuss this without veering into politics, but I thought the board would be interested.

Kate Starbird is now an associate professor who studies disinformation campaigns.  She tweeted today that she's now a target of online harassment related to her work studying the aftermath of the 2020 election:

https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/...0654351364

Sadly not surprising. It seems to be a common thing these days.

Yes.  Both internet disinformation and on-line harassment are common things.  And are only going to get worse.

Both have been around forever. Technology just amplifies it out of all proportion. To the delight of sociopath trolls.

I wonder if the disinformation scientists ever study "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."