Russian Twitter disinformation campaigns reach across the American political spectrum [PDF]
, 2020 Evidence from an analysis of Twitter data reveals that Russian social media trolls exploited racial and political identities to infiltrate distinct groups of authentic users, playing on their group identities.
Freelon, Deen, Lokot, Tetyana
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Propaganda, disinformation, informational, psychological and mental warfare as instruments of power in globalized world [PDF]
Košická bezpečnostná revue, 2023 The report elaborates on the issue of disinformation as a tool for manipulation, influence and governance, the issue of information warfare. In connection with this, the basics of the concept are defined related to the terms disinformation, “disinformer”,
Viktor PORADA, Anton LISNÍK
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Countering Disinformation on Social Media Platforms: Developments in the EU and Poland
Медіафорум: аналітика, прогнози, інформаційний менеджмент, 2023 One of the biggest challenges to European democracies is the spread of malicious disinformation, facilitated by the increasing importance of online platforms as news sources.
Joanna Kulesza, Pavlo Burdiak
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Agreement with COVID-19 disinformation among Portuguese-speaking older adults: an international study [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2023 Objectives: to assess agreement with COVID-19 disinformation among Portuguese-speaking individuals aged 50 years or older. Methods: a descriptive and analytical study involving 1,214 older adults born in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Rodrigo Mota de Oliveira +7 more
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The Alt-Right and Global Information Warfare [PDF]
, 2019 The Alt-Right is a neo-fascist white supremacist movement that is involved in violent extremism and shows signs of engagement in extensive disinformation campaigns.
Bevensee, Emmi, Ross, Alexander Reid
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Conferring resistance to digital disinformation: the innoculating influence of procedural news knowledge [PDF]
, 2019 Despite the pervasiveness of digital disinformation in society, little is known about the individual characteristics that make some users more susceptible to erroneous information uptake than others, effectively dividing the media audience into prone and
Amazeen, M. A., Bucy, Erik
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We are the Change that we Seek: Information Interactions During a Change of Viewpoint [PDF]
, 2020 There has been considerable hype about filter bubbles and echo chambers influencing the views of information consumers. The fear is that these technologies are undermining democracy by swaying opinion and creating an uninformed, polarised populace.
Adamic L.A. +21 more
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, 2015 Prototypical instances of disinformation include deceptive advertising (in business and in politics), government propaganda, doctored photographs, forged documents, fake maps, internet frauds, fake websites, and manipulated Wikipedia entries ...
Fallis, Don
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Information and Design: Book Symposium on Luciano Floridi’s The Logic of Information [PDF]
, 2020 Purpose – To review and discuss Luciano Floridi’s 2019 book The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design, the latest instalment in his philosophy of information (PI) tetralogy, particularly with respect to its implications for ...
Bawden, David +9 more
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The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2022 Viral online disinformation is misleading content that is generated to manipulate public opinion and to circulate rapidly in the digital space. Although viral disinformation has become an instrument for radicalization, the specific psychological ...
Sophia Moskalenko, Ekaterina Romanova
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