We’re fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways

Regulating disinformation as “content” only to be blocked or corrected by fact-checkers is inefficient and limiting. The real task is to question the system that feeds it.

Ours RECAPTURE The research team is tracking how disinformation spread across Chinese and American social media platforms such as WeChat, RedNote and YouTube is affecting democratic processes in Australia. To better prepare us for the elections of the future, we suggest it is time to consider how regulators and fact-checkers are focusing on countering disinformation and falsehoods.