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DisInfo Detector

Digging deeper into steaming piles of disinformation about #AusFires
It's time for some #FairDinkumFacts

Disinformation Campaign - countermeasures
A series of misleading articles have been created and are getting traction on social media platforms - it's been starting to get some coverage at:
  1. www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-bots-and-trolls-promote-conspiracy-theories-about-australian-bushfires/
  2. www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-08/fires-misinformation-being-spread-through-social-media/11846434
  3. https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/news-corp-fire/11925590
We're asking people to either tag spurious posts with #AusFireHack so teams can do some followup investigation, or report an article URL in our form below (preferred):
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