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Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021 This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United States, identity, particularly race, plays a key role in the messages and
Rachel Kuo, Alice Marwick
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Modelling election dynamics and the impact of disinformation [PDF]
, 2019 Complex dynamical systems driven by the unravelling of information can be modelled effectively by treating the underlying flow of information as the model input. Complicated dynamical behaviour of the system is then derived as an output.
Brody, Dorje C
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Topology comparison of Twitter diffusion networks effectively reveals misleading information
, 2020 In recent years, malicious information had an explosive growth in social media, with serious social and political backlashes. Recent important studies, featuring large-scale analyses, have produced deeper knowledge about this phenomenon, showing that ...
Ceri, Stefano +2 more
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IEEE Access, 2020 In the Web 2.0 age, mass media disseminates the disinformation of companies and exerts considerable influence. How to manage this trend in a timely and effective fashion in this big data era has become difficult.
Yongtian Yu +4 more
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SYSTEMATIC DISINFORMATION: THE SPREAD OF MISLEADING INFORMATION AS A COLLECTIVE DYNAMIC ON TWITTER
Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, 2022 Disinformation is a worldwide problem and has been a key scholarship in the last few years. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on how disinformation spread on social media.
Felipe Bonow Soares
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Education against Disinformation [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex SystemsIn the contemporary world, disinformation has serious consequences, including undermining democracy, the economy and public health. They influence electoral processes, undermine trust in companies, encourage divisions and divert attention from key issues.
Krunoslav Antoliš
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The quality of political information [PDF]
, 2020 The article conceptualizes the quality of political information and shows how the concept can be used for empirical research. I distinguish three aspects of quality (intelligibility, relevance, validity) and use them to judge the constituent foundations ...
Areni C +11 more
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Promoting Journalism as Method [PDF]
, 2020 The marketplace of ideas has been a centerpiece of free speech jurisprudence for a century. According to the marketplace theory, the vigorous competition of ideas, free from government interference, is the surest path to truth.
Carroll, Erin C.
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Mathematical modeling of disinformation and effectiveness of mitigation policies
Scientific Reports, 2023 Disinformation is spread to manipulate public opinion for malicious purposes. Mathematical modeling was used to examine and optimize several strategies for combating disinformation—content moderation, education, and counter-campaigns.
David J. Butts +2 more
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The perils of legally defining disinformation
Internet Policy Review, 2021 EU policy considers disinformation to be harmful content, rather than illegal content. However, EU member states have recently been making disinformation illegal. This article discusses the definitions that form the basis of EU disinformation policy, and
Ronan Ó Fathaigh +2 more
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