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:
TED-style Talk on "Disinformation in the Middle East" with Dr. Marc Jones