Retraction:Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news

Mutale Nkonde; Maria Y. Rodriguez; Leonard Cortana; Joan K. Mukogosi; Shakira King; Ray Serrato; Natalie Martinez; Mary Drummer; Ann Lewis; Momin M. Malik

doi:10.37016/mr-2020-52

Retraction:Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news

Mutale Nkonde
, Maria Y. Rodriguez
, Leonard Cortana
, Joan K. Mukogosi
, Shakira King
, Ray Serrato
, Natalie Martinez
, Mary Drummer
, Ann Lewis
, Momin M. Malik

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Columbia University
New York University
AI for the People
MoveOn

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In this essay, we conduct a descriptive content analysis from a sample of a dataset made up of 534 thousand scraped tweets, supplemented with access to 1.36 million tweets from the Twitter firehose, from accounts that used the #ADOS hashtag between November 2019 and September 2020. ADOS is an acronym for American Descendants of Slavery, a largely online group that operates within Black online communities. We find that the ADOS network strategically uses breaking news events to discourage Black voters from voting for the Democratic party, a phenomenon we call disinformation creep. Conversely, the ADOS network has remained largely silent about the impact of the novel coronavirus on Black communities, undermining its claims that it works in the interests of Black Americans.

Original language	English
Journal	Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Volume	1
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-52
State	Published - 2021

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