How to Clean Up Copaganda
A Toolkit for Journalists, Communicators, and Organizers Responding to Law Enforcement Disinformation
By Lewis Raven Wallace
This online resource accompanies and expands on our Don’t Be A Copagandist series by providing tools for shifting coverage to counter copaganda.
This guide offers information, context, tips, and recommendations for how journalists and communicators can deal with law enforcement disinformation — through careful and thorough coverage, asking the right questions, seeking alternate sources, and making public records requests. Where it is not possible to get the information in a timely manner, we also provide qualifying language that journalists and communicators can use to report on police statements in context.
We also have a How to Clean Up Copaganda poster, which sums up ten key ways journalists and media makers can cut through authoritarian and pro-police propaganda by getting to root causes, avoiding sensationalizing, and refusing to repeat police lies. Check it out and order prints to put above your desk or post in your newsroom or community!
Be sure to also check out our Don’t Be A Copagandist series.
Explore more resources on our Abolition Journalism page.
