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Posts by Heather Leson

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2025 University Faculty Lecture A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations

If anyone is interested, I'm giving a talk today that covers 10+ years of my team's research and ends in the same place — the right wing media machine. I have another name for it, but you'll have to wait for my final slide. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

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I'd love the recording, @katestarbird.bsky.social -we are doing a large report at IFRC on this topic this year. You were already on my contact list once we have the editor in place.

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A ‘War of Stories’: Humanitarianism in the Disinformation Age | @heatherleson.bsky.social from the @theifrc.bsky.social invited me to pen this article mid-2024. I sent it to her months ago, and finally got around to publishing it.

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“Every story is a climate story because climate change is an economic problem before being an environmental problem”
#GVSummit2024

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Alright. Here we are #humanitarian #technology #governance #opensource #opendata #digitalstrategy #openstreetmap.

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Listening to the back to back interviews right now on "Request fro Commits". So terrible how @yoyoel.com was treated. I can't stop thinking about misinformation and humanitarian work - we need these spaces and we need leaders to keep working on trust and safety.

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Re-reading last year's rejected proposals. Glad that I was able to take parts of it forward. Next up - write new proposals....

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working on a program to support women leaders. this video was fantastic about approaches - www.youtube.com/watch

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are you working on governance in open communities? let's get in touch

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What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.

I share this article often to help bridge the divide on tech - www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-... We need more simple, clear 'manage up' article / videos to help our leaders. If you have a favourite video/article, please share.

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