Marc Owen Jones is an assistant professor of Middle East studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and a non-resident fellow at DAWN. His new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media, will be published in October.
In a 17 minute video, Dr. Marc Owen Jones, an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and a DAWN Non-Resident Fellow, speaks about disinformation campaigns in the Middle East.
He explains how Middle Eastern governments are increasingly important exporters of disinformation and targets global audiences, from the US to Europe and Asia."
To drive his point, Dr. Jones describes a first-hand, personal account about a disinformation campaign targeting Nobel Laureate and Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman after her appointment as a member of Facebook's oversight committee, tasked with helping"democratize the process of moderating content."
Watch the video here:
