Having worked with humanitarian aid targeted at particularly vulnerable groups (women, children, persons with disabilities, persons from the LGBTQ+ community, etc), their vulnerability when not expressely included in programme planning is staggering. Is there any data on the impact of disinformation as opposed to non-mention? On another note it is also absolutely essential to include these groups in the programme designs for these to have resonance, which usually has the added bonus of making language used inclusive and accurate.
NATO and Intersectional Perspectives: Understanding How Disinformation Targets Women and Other Vulnerable Groups
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As someone who is from North Macedonia - a country that has most recently joined the NATO Alliance and has been going through challenges and setbacks into joining the European Union now more than ever it is crucially important to address the challenges that women are facing especially when working in highly male dominant industries like the field of peace and security.
In high power distance societies like the Western Balkans, especially North Macedonia there are still inflicting stereotypes and prejudices about women's capacities to work in highly dominant male industries like the field of peace and security.
It is important to first understand what are the factors that oftentimes lead to disinformation that target not only women, but other vulnerable groups too. I would say that it is a priority to firstly map the societal factors that sparkle disinformation and misinformation and then propose adequate solutions and influence key policy makers and stakeholders about the importance of dismantling these barriers.
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As someone with some experience in print media I think it’s important to tackle disinformation by getting to the root of why certain groups of people are portrayed a certain way in the media. There’s different language used when reporting about for example women, or women of a certain race or religion. This creates connotations that people subconsciously read and lead to forming a certain image of someone. it’s important for people to understand why vulnerable groups are considered vulnerable and how the language, photographs and headlines used creates this unfair and misinformed image of a person or group of people.
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"You cannot manage what you cannot measure" - that management maxim applies to disinformation as well. The DISARM Framework of disinformation behaviours - Tactics, Techniques & Procedures (TTPs) provides a common language to map influence operations, share data, and analysis, and coordinate action at scale. Having a common way to measure and share data consistently, in a machine readable format, enables the community to connect up the field. We can only be intersectional when we can understand the field and have a robust measure of the threats we face.
See more here: https://www.disarm.foundation/
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How do we best protect and engage the socio-economically precarious in the fight against disinformation?
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How do we best protect and engage our elders in the fight against disinformation? Discuss below!