A team of Howard University researchers wants to know how disinformation impacts Black people - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A team of Howard University researchers wants to know how disinformation impacts Black people - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Black voters are frequent targets of online disinformation. They were in 2016 when Russia's Internet Research Agency created fake Black activist profiles in its effort to interfere in that year's presidential election and they were in 2020, when scammers tried to dissuade people form getting absentee ballots. Howard University's Keesha Middlemass, a political science professor, and her colleagues have set out to explore how Black communities in Washington, DC, are impacted by disinformation.