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Combating Fake News, Disinformation, and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence for Media Literacy Education
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 9, issue 2037229 (2022), 17 pp.
"This study investigated the effect of media and information literacy (MIL) on the ability to identify fake news, disinformation and misinformation, and sharing intentions. The experimental approach was selected to study both the control group and experimental group made up of a total of 187 respond
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The Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation 2022
Key Guides
European Commission (2022), 40 pp.
"The Code of Practice on Disinformation is a first-of-its kind tool through which relevant players in the industry agreed - for the first time in 2018 - on self-regulatory standards to fight disinformation. Its revision process was launched in June 2021 and, after the signature and presentation of t
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Disinformation Against UN Peacekeeping Operations
New York: International Peace Institute (IPI) (2022), 15 pp.
"Over the past few years, a growing barrage of disinformation has targeted UN peacekeeping operations, particularly the missions in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Mali (MINUSMA), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). This includes false allegations that UN peacekeepers are tra
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Moderación privada de contenidos en Internet y su impacto en el periodismo
Montevideo: Observacom (2022), 43 pp.
"El presente documento aborda la problemática de la moderación de contenidos en las plataformas haciendo hincapié en su impacto fundamental en el periodismo y teniendo como eje los derechos a la libertad de prensa y la libertad de expresión." (Introducción, página 5)
Narrative russischer staatlicher Medien über Corona-Impfstoffe im Westen
Russland-Analysen, issue 418 (2022), pp. 2-5
"Die überwiegende Mehrheit der Beiträge in russischen staatlichen Medien über Impfkampagnen im Westen haben eine negative Konnotation. Die Übertreibung der negativen Folgen einer Impfung mit Präparaten von BionTech/Pfizer und Moderna sowie die Überzeichnung der angeblich massenhaften Unzufried
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Mistake or Manipulation? Conceptualizing Perceived Mis- and Disinformation among News Consumers in 10 European Countries
Communication Research, volume 49, issue 7 (2022), pp. 919-941
"In the midst of heated debates surrounding the veracity and honesty of communication, scholarly attention has turned to the conceptualization of mis- and disinformation on the supply-side of (political) communication. Yet, we lack systematic research on the conceptualization of perceived mis- and d
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Research Note: Fighting Misinformation or Fighting for Information?
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-15
"A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention. In this article, we show that, given the very limited prevalence of misinformatio
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Gender-based Disinformation 101: Theory, Examples, and Need for Regulation
EU Disinfo Lab; #ShePersisted (2022), 5 pp.
"This Technical Document is the result of a collaboration between EU DisinfoLab and #ShePersisted. It offers a short and practical toolbox of what should be considered when speaking of gender-based disinformation." (Page 3)
Good Practice Principles for Public Communication Responses to Mis- and Disinformation
Key Guides
Paris: OECD (2022), 43 pp.
"1. Institutionalisation: Governments should consolidate interventions into coherent approaches guided by official communication and data policies, standards and guidelines [...] 2. Public interest driven: Public communication should strive to be independent from politicization in implementing inter
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The Kremlin's Troll Network Never Sleeps: Inauthentic Pro-Kremlin Online Behavior on Facebook in Germany, Italy, Romania and Hungary
Budapest: Political Capital Institute (2022), 36 pp.
"The research – based on programmatic text-mining supported analyses of several millions of war-related comments scraped by Sentione and further examined with CrowdTangle - found traces of inauthentic, repetitive pro-Kremlin activity on Facebook in all countries under review, which can be consider
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A systematic literature review and existing challenges toward fake news detection models
Social Network Analysis and Mining, volume 12, issue 168 (2022), 21 pp.
"This paper aims to conduct a review on fake news detection models that is contributed by a variety of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The fundamental and well-performing approaches that existed in the past years are reviewed and categorized and described in different datasets. Furthe
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Media Literacy and Disinformation Perception Survey
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 37 pp.
"The aim of this research was to study media consumption habits among different age groups and geographical areas, as well as the public's vulnerability to various disinformation and manipulative narratives disseminated in Georgia. The first part of the research concerns media literacy competencies,
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Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 272 pp.
"Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyberspace in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state acto
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Policy responses to false and misleading digital content: A snapshot of children’s media literacy
Paris: OECD (2022), 81 pp.
"This paper has four parts. First, it outlines current research and definitions relating to false and misleading digital content and looks at children's behaviour in the digital environment. Second, the concepts of media literacy, digital literacy and other relevant competencies are discussed. Third
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We Love to Hate George Soros: A Cross-Platform Analysis of the Globalism Conspiracy Theory Campaign in Brazil
Convergence, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 983–1006
"The proliferation of conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros and the ‘Globalist invasion’ had been concentrated primarily in Eastern Europe, Russia and the United States. However, since Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential victory in Brazil, Soros has become a target of the far-right in the cou
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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Deep Insights
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2022), 50 pp.
"The CEU Democracy Institute's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) embarked in November 2020 on a one-year project aimed at mapping and analyzing the work of the world's fact-checking groups, with a focus on their challenges, needs and successes. The project started with a survey of 30 fact-ch
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A Treatment for Viral Deception? Automated Moderation of COVID-19 Disinformation
Universität Innsbruck (2022), 110 pp.
"This paper examines responses to disinformation, in particular those involving automated tools, from a human rights perspective. It provides an introduction to current automated content moderation and curation practices, and to the interrelation between the digital information ecosystem and the phe
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Talking to Trolls—How Users Respond to a Coordinated Information Operation and Why They’re so Supportive
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 27, issue 1, zmab022 (2022), 19 pp.
"Through this research we gained insight into tactics employed by state-backed social media disinformation. With that goal, we explored user interactions with inauthentic Twitter accounts. We used multiple procedures to measure the ways in which users talked with and about the accounts employed by t
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Disinformation studies: Perspectives from an emerging field
Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior; LabCom (2022), 299 pp.
"It all started at the ECREA 2021 Post Conference “Disinformation Studies: Perspectives to An Emerging Research Field”, which took place online, on September 10, 2021. The debate there quickly widened and was joined by other colleagues. The book that we bring you here is the result of part of th
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The detection of political deepfakes
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 27, issue 4, zmac008 (2022), 13 pp.
"In this article, a theoretical model on the detection of deepfakes by ordinary citizens is introduced. The authors conducted three studies in which deepfakes with political content were presented. The deepfakes showed UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson or Barack Obama. In the deepfake videos, the
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