An Insider’s Guide to “Anti-Disinformation”

I knew things were bad in my world, but the truth turned out to be much worse than I could have imagined.

My name is Andrew Lowenthal. I am a progressive-minded Australian who for almost 18 years was the Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-based NGO focused on human rights online, freedom of expression, and open technology. My resume also includes fellowships at Harvard s Berkman Klein Center and MIT s Open Documentary Lab. For most of my career, I believed strongly in the work I was doing, which I believed was about protecting and expanding digital rights and freedoms.

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In recent years, however, I watched in despair as a dramatic change swept through my field. As if all at once, organizations and colleagues with whom I d worked for years began de-emphasizing freedom of speech and expression, and shifted focus to a new arena: fighting disinformation.

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Resist as best we can. What else is there?