• Introduction
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Harmful Information and the Erosion of Trust in Humanitarian Response: the Role of Truth, Trust, and Technology

by WDR25 Editor | Aug 29, 2025

The Shifting Ground of Trust “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.” So said Ed Murrow, the American broadcaster and correspondent during the Second World War.  The principle still holds:...

Crisis, Chaos, and Confusion: Understanding Harmful Information in Humanitarian Contexts

by WDR25 Editor | Aug 29, 2025

For the humanitarian sector, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marked the first widespread digital coverage of a disaster and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000’s became the first armed conflicts dissected in real time by thousands of online commentators...

Introduction

by WDR25 Editor | Aug 29, 2025

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