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Boosting immunity to disinformation: Ukrainian students better detect false information after teachers integrate media literacy into standard subjects
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 23 slides
"Students who received Learn to Discern (L2D) lessons performed better on all assessment tasks: identifying facts and opinions, false stories, hate speech, and demonstrated deeper knowledge of the news media sector. L2D students reported healthier media consumption habits and behavior and viewed cri
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Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent
London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 171 pp.
"Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018
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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp.
"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int
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Harmful Disinformation in Southeast Asia: “Negative Campaigning”, “Information Operations” and “Racist Propaganda” – Three Forms of Manipulative Political Communication in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, volume 18, issue 2 (2019), pp. 68-89
"When comparing media freedom in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, so-called “fake news” appears as threats to a deliberative (online) public sphere in these three diverse contexts. However, “racist propaganda”, “information operations” and “negative campaigning” might be more accurat
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Integridad y ética de los medios de comunicación
Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2019), 30 pp.
"El módulo explora la importancia crítica de la ética para medios tradicionales, como el periodismo, y para medios modernos, como las redes sociales. La presencia de las redes sociales y las noticias digitales ha aumentado la responsabilidad ética de la gente que opera en este campo, especialmen
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Fake News: A Global Epidemic. Vast Majority (86%) of Online Global Citizens Have Been Exposed to It, with Most (86%) Admitting to Having Fallen Victim to It
Toronto: Ipsos; Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), 4 pp.
"The findings of a recent Ipsos survey conducted on behalf of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) reveal that fake news is very much a global epidemic and that its impact is widespread. The poll of over 25,000 interviews in over 25 economies finds that well over four in five (8
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The State of Deepfakes: Landscape, Threats, and Impact
Amsterdam: Deeptrace (2019), 20 pp.
"Our research revealed that the deepfake phenomenon is growing rapidly online, with the number of deepfake videos almost doubling over the last seven months to 14,678. This increase is supported by the growing commodification of tools and services that lower the barrier for non-experts to create dee
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Desinformação: Ameaça ao direito à comunicação muito além das fake news
São Paulo: Intervozes (2019), 46 pp.
"A luta contra a desinformação não é nova, mas atingiu proporções inimagináveis há algumas décadas. O volume de conteúdos, a velocidade e o alcance conferiram mudanças qualitativas ao problema, exigindo um esforço para a descoberta de novas formas de enfrentá-lo. Longe de esgotarmos o a
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International Conference on Fake News and Elections in Asia. Conference Proceedings
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2019), 22 pp.
CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey Internet Security & Trust 2019, Part 3: Social Media, Fake News & Algorithms
Ipsos; Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), 213 slides
"1. Majorities around the globe say that social media has increased their ease of communications & access to information, but are mixed on its impact on civility. On balance, it is seen as a positive, but not without its problems. (slides 8-34). 2. Four in ten (44%) admit to being duped by fake news
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The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms
Information Communication & Society, volume 22, issue 11 (2019), pp. 1531-1543
"This introduction to the special issue considers how independent research on mis/disinformation campaigns can be conducted in a corporate environment hostile to academic research. We provide an overview of the disinformation landscape in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal and
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The Business of Misinformation: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lying for Profit
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 8 pp.
"The websites creating misinformation content in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be classified into four categories based on their financial and/or political motivations and the extent to which they provide valuable journalistic contributions. The majority of misinformation websites are motivated solely
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The Psychology of State-Sponsored Disinformation Campaigns and Implications for Public Diplomacy
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, volume 14, issue 1/2 (2019), pp. 65-82
"Policy discourse about disinformation focuses heavily on the technological dimensions of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns. Unfortunately, this myopic focus on technology has led to insufficient attention being paid to the underlying human factors driving the success of state-sponsored disin
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Facebooking in Myanmar: From Hate Speech to Fake News to Partisan Political Communication
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), 10 pp.
"Facebook is the Internet in Myanmar, and it presents both opportunities for and challenges to the government, the opposition, and the people in a country that is in transition. Facebook has gained notoriety as a platform for hate speech and fake news in Myanmar over the past seven years. Facebook h
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Pistas para chequear: Cómo hacer periodismo de verificación de datos
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción (2019), 88 pp.
“Fake News” and Cyber-Propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recentering the Research Agenda
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 4 (2019), pp. 1-12
"Dominant narratives about the contemporary problem of “fake news” and cyber-propaganda have focused on how its evolution and manifestation has been closely linked with the rise of populist politics, digital capitalism, the transformation of the public sphere and structural weaknesses of liberal
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The Business of Misinformation: Slovakia. Snake Oil Spills Onto the Web
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 12 pp.
"The presented report looks at 49 major Slovak disinformation and misinformation websites and sketches out their ownership as well as financial background. The report succeeds in identifying the ownership or operational structure behind 35 websites. In terms of financial data, the report canvasses f
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"The information ecosystem in DRC is fragmented and fragile. It is characterised by a great number of media outlets, however their level of professionalism is low and their vulnerability to partisan capture is high. This fragility is replicated in the online space. The Congolese population rely heav
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