{"id":2213081,"date":"2024-04-04T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disinfo-guru-to-voters-trust-corporate-media-instead-of-doing-your-own-research\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:28:24","slug":"disinfo-guru-to-voters-trust-corporate-media-instead-of-doing-your-own-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disinfo-guru-to-voters-trust-corporate-media-instead-of-doing-your-own-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Advises Voters to Rely on Corporate Media Over Personal Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisinfo-guru-to-voters-trust-corporate-media-instead-of-doing-your-own-research%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Beth\u2062 Schwanke of Pitt Disinformation Lab, along \u200bwith Pennsylvania Secretary of\u2064 the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, recommended against conducting personal\u2064 election\u200d research during\u2062 a\u200d panel discussion. She advised relying on &#8220;trusted&#8221; sources over personal \u2064research to combat misinformation. This\u200b advice was shared\u2064 during a forum hosted \u200dby Spotlight PA. \u200dSchwanke emphasized the importance of using reputable sources \u200clike the Department\u200c of State and local NPR affiliates for accurate information.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a panel discussion where she was joined by Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, Pitt Disinformation Lab Executive Director Beth Schwanke suggested Pennsylvanians should not do their \u201cown research\u201d when it comes to elections and instead rely on so-called \u201ctrusted\u201d sources, including those linked to groups with a history of censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Schwanke and Schmidt took part in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2024\/03\/pennsylvania-elections-2024-al-schmidt-election-security-disinformation-event\/?utm_source=Spotlight+PA&#038;utm_campaign=906ddcb1f9-Share+your+thoughts+on+our+event+with+Al+Schmidt&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_ff13a45256-906ddcb1f9-294057494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forum<\/a> Tuesday hosted by Spotlight PA. Schwanke was asked how to combat so-called \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see misinformation, it\u2019s best not to engage with it online because you are helping to amplify it,\u201d Schwanke began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing everyone can do to make sure they are seeing accurate information is to use trusted sources. So in elections that means using the Department of State, that means using your county elections office, it means using media organizations that follow \u2014 that adhere \u2014 to professional journalism standards like \u2026 your local NPR affiliate,\u201d Schwanke said. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t mean you know, \u2018doing your own research\u2019 and just asking questions and sharing, you know, posts from \u2014 I don\u2019t know, in my case, it\u2019s Uncle Joe, right? It means being thoughtful about where your sources are coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwanke is correct that Pennsylvanians and Americans should be \u201cthoughtful\u201d about where they source their information from, which is exactly why regime-approved sources like \u201cNPR affiliates\u201d and the \u201cDepartment of State\u201d should be heavily scrutinized. <\/p>\n<p>After the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 election, Big Tech platforms began limiting users\u2019 ability to share the story that was falsely labeled \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READNEXT:[READNEXT:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/21\/secretaries-of-state-wont-explain-coordinated-effort-to-fight-common-adversary-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Secretaries Of State Won\u2019t Explain \u2018Coordinated\u2019 Effort To Fight \u2018Common Adversary\u2019 In 2024<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NPR\u2019s Managing Editor Terence Samuels said the outlet wouldn\u2019t \u201cwaste\u201d its time covering a bombshell story implicating then-candidate Joe Biden in a foreign corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don\u2019t want to waste the listeners\u2019 and readers\u2019 time on stories that are just pure distractions,\u201d he wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State Department is no more reliable a source, considering it revealed to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/01\/pennsylvania-partners-with-dhs-cisa-censors-to-target-election-speech-it-deems-a-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> it would work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to target election speech online deemed a \u201cthreat.\u201d The Department of State Election Task Force will partner with CISA, the \u201cnerve center\u201d of the government\u2019s censorship branch, to \u201cprovide voters with accurate, trusted election information\u201d and \u201cmitigate threats\u201d to elections such as speech it deems \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But how can Pennsylvanians trust this partnership to discern what information is reliable, when <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/20\/exclusive-jordan-tells-cisa-to-fork-over-docs-about-collusion-with-pennsylvania-to-target-election-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CISA has censored Americans<\/a> for stating true information?<\/p>\n<p>For example, CISA created a six-point list in October 2020 warning that unsupervised mail-in voting carried multiple risks, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/bombshell-documents-america-first-legal-lawsuit-reveals-cisa-knew-about-mail-in-voting-risks-in-2020-while-censoring-related-narratives-as-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documents<\/a> obtained by America First Legal. Yet CISA got social media posts that shared similar concerns <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/23\/docs-cisa-knew-risks-of-mail-in-voting-in-2020-but-got-posts-about-them-censored-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flagged<\/a> as \u201cdisinformation\u201d for Big Tech companies to censor. One post that was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1320873664296804354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flagged<\/a> was a tweet from then-President Donald Trump in which he claimed there were \u201cBig problems and discrepancies with Mail in Ballots all over the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as my colleague Joy Pullmann reported last month, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developing AI censorship tools on the federal taxpayers\u2019 dime criticized people who \u201cfocused on reading a wide array of primary sources, and performing their own synthesis\u201d as being more prone to believe \u201cdisinformation.\u201d The MIT report disparaged people who value \u201csacred\u201d texts such as \u201cthe Bible or the Constitution\u201d because they were likely to \u201cadhere[] to deeper narratives that might make them suspicious of any intervention that privileges mainstream sources or recognized experts.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a panel discussion, Beth Schwanke of Pitt Disinformation Lab, with Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, advised against conducting personal election research. 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