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Vorsicht #Desinformation: Die Wirkung von desinformierenden Social Media-Posts auf die Meinungsbildung und Interventionen
Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (2023), 18 pp.
"Ziel dieser Studie war die Untersuchung der (langfristigen) Wirkung von Desinformation auf Social Media auf die Meinungsbildung sowie deren Einflussfaktoren. Der Fokus lag auf der Rolle von wiederholtem Kontakt mit Desinformation, auf der intervenierenden Wirkung von Aufklärungstexten und Warnhinw
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Questioning Fact-Checking in the Fight Against Disinformation: An Audience Perspective
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2123-2139
"Fact-checking has been identified as a significant journalistic tool in the fight against disinformation. Relevant studies have focused on its emergence as a movement within journalism aiming at renewing the profession, as well as its effectiveness in challenging disinformation, especially during e
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The price of (dis)trust – profiling believers of (dis)information in the Hungarian context
Social Influence, volume 18, issue 1 (2023), 27 pp.
"Taking a person-centered approach – we explored different constellations of social-psychological characteristics associated with (dis)information belief in order to identify distinct subgroups whose (dis)information belief stems from different social or political motives. Hungarian participants (
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Regulating misleading political advertising on online platforms: An example of regulatory mercantilism in digital policy
Policy Studies, volume 45, issue 5 (2023), pp. 730–749
"Since its Joint Communication on Hybrid Threats, the EU has publicly recognized the risks to its security posed by non-traditional means aimed at undermining its legitimacy. The propagation of disinformation including misleading political advertising serves as a key example of how the Commission’
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Striking the balance between fake and real: Under what conditions can media literacy messages that warn about misinformation maintain trust in accurate information?
Behaviour & Information Technology (2023), 13 pp.
"Although interventions that warn about the harms of misinformation may be effective in lowering the credibility of false information, they may also cause suspicion related to factually accurate information. To explore these contradictory outcomes of exposure to media literacy messages, we used an o
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Dissemination of disinformation on political and electoral processes in Nigeria: An exploratory study
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 10, issue 2216983 (2023), 11 pp.
"Increasingly, social media has become a major source of fake news, with disinformation used as a tool in manipulating public opinion and delegitimizing opposing voices. This study explores the influence of the content of social media on traditional media, and the proliferation of disinformation in
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Truth with a Z: Disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity
Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 39, issue 5 (2023), pp. 347-365
"This article offers a qualitative analysis of how, by adopting identity-related discourses whose meanings resonate within a given culture, Russian state propaganda strives to bolster “the truth status” of its Ukraine war claims. These discourses, we argue, have long historical lineages and thus
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Preserving trust in democracy: The Brazilian Superior Electoral Court's quest to tackle disinformation in elections
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 30, issue 3 (2023), pp. 497-520
"Trust is the foundation on which democracy is built. Not coincidentally, it is the main victim of attacks by disinformation merchants bent on undermining the electoral process and the democratic environment. This article outlines the efforts of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to tackle
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The Media Manipulation Casebook
Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2023)
"The Media Manipulation Casebook is a research platform [launched in 2019] that advances knowledge of misinformation and disinformation and their threats to democracy, public health, and security. The Casebook is a resource for building the field of Critical Internet Studies by equipping researchers
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The Spot the Troll Quiz game increases accuracy in discerning between real and inauthentic social media accounts
PNAS Nexus, volume 2, issue 4 (2023), pp. 1-11
"The proliferation of political mis/disinformation on social media has led many scholars to embrace “inoculation” techniques, where individuals are trained to identify the signs of low-veracity information prior to exposure. Coordinated information operations frequently spread mis/disinformation
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A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, volume 30, issue 4 (2023), pp. 752-760
"We provide a scoping review of Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) that mitigate COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation seeding and spread. Materials and Methods: We applied our search protocol to PubMed, PsychINFO, and Web of Science to screen 1666 articles. The 17 articles included in this pa
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Narrative über den Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine (NUK)
Bonn; Berlin: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2023), 30 pp.
"Zwischen dem 19.09.2022 und 18.09.2023 wurde das Projekt „Narrative über den Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine“ (NUK, im Folgenden NUK) vom Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD Germany) im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb umgesetzt. Ziel des Projekts war es, Desinformati
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Clones and zombies: Rethinking conspiracy theories and the digital public sphere through a (post)-colonial perspective
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 12 (2023), pp. 2419-2438
"This article investigates what is at stake in decolonising the study of conspiracy theories online. It challenges the confidence with which conspiracy theories are often dismissed as aberrations and negative externalities of digital ecosystems. Without reifying conspiracy theories, we identify as p
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"On average in the 16 countries surveyed, 56% of internet users frequently use social media to stay informed about current events, far ahead of television (44%). However, it is worth noting that differences exist among population groups: television is the primary source in the most developed countri
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What do we study when we study misinformation? A scoping review of experimental research (2016-2022)
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 4, issue 6 (2023), 57 pp.
"We reviewed 555 papers published from 2016–2022 that presented misinformation to participants. We identified several trends in the literature—increasing frequency of misinformation studies over time, a wide variety of topics covered, and a significant focus on COVID-19 misinformation since 2020
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Towards a model that measures the impact of disinformation on elections
European View, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 119-130
"Disinformation represents a danger to the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process. From our research based on the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections, we introduce a model for measuring the resilience of citizens to disinformation. This model is then used to draw conclusions about the impa
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The Far-Right Smokescreen: Environmental Conspiracy and Culture Wars on Brazilian YouTube
Social Media + Society, volume 9, issue 3 (2023), 22 pp.
"Holding the greatest area of rainforest in the world, Brazil has seen the adoption of a far-right anti-environmental agenda under the administration of Jair Bolsonaro. This agenda was backed by a transnational infrastructure of right-wing media outlets on online platforms, including the conservativ
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Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media
Social Media + Society, volume 9, issue 4 (2023), 10 pp.
"As Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, social media was rife with pro-Kremlin disinformation. To effectively tackle the issue of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, this study examines the underlying reasons why some individuals are susceptible to false claims
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Addressing Gendered Disinformation: Review of Current Recommendations and the Case for Broadening Responses
Key Guides
IREX (2023), 27 pp.
"This report summarizes and groups the most common recommendations to address gendered disinformation and analyzes gaps between the evidence base and the recommendations made to date. This review is aimed toward those who seek to develop solutions to gendered disinformation in its different forms, a
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An Underestimated Threat: Gendered Disinformation about Ukrainian Women Journalists
Women in Media; European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) (2023), 51 pp.
"Russia uses a strategy of gendered disinformation in Ukraine to silence women journalists and create a certain negative image of gender equality and the role of women in democratic societies. Online violence can take on a variety of worms: doxxing, sectoring, trolling, cyberstalking, threats of vio
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