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Fake News Addicts: How Disinformation and its Mongers Strive in Ukraine 2020
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 10 pp.
"As we can see, disinformation can be spread by ordinary responsible individuals with good intentions as well as by, dare I say, entire bot nations consisting of millions of active bot accounts that reach all possible audiences of any age, gender, and interests. And for any audiences that haven't be
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Talking Back: Journalists Defending Attacks Against Their Profession in the Trump Era
Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 11 (2020), pp. 1496–1513
"According to neo-institutional theory, the survival of institutions in society is predicated on a cultural discourse. Dubbed “the institutional myth,” this discourse reflects the core values, practices and aspirations of an institution and legitimizes its existence to internal and external stak
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Entre información y conspiración: Comunicación digital en tiempos de crisis
Montevideo: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 102 pp.
Disorder in the Newsroom: The Media's Perceptions and Response to the Infodemic
Media Matters for Democracy; Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 29 pp.
"The research included a survey of 546 journalists along with in-depth interviews of 10 senior reporters and editors in national and international newsrooms based in Pakistan. The survey, aimed at understanding the perception of their ability to identify and counter misinformation, found that almost
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Defending freedom of expression: Fake news laws in East and Southeast Asia
Deep Insights
Bangkog; Manila: Asia Centre; Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD). (2020), 61 pp.
"This report compares the impact of legislation in countries with multiparty legislatures and independent government institutions, and countries with one dominant political force and an absence of independent national institutions. It finds that in the former countries, provisions are included to sa
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Exploring Turkey's Disinformation Ecosystem: An Overview
Istanbul: Edam Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (2020), 28 pp.
"The study’s key findings revealed that the Turkish information landscape is exposed to nearly all kinds of false information at very high rates. Frequent botnet and troll activity in Turkey’s social media use brings about more disinformation, fueling polarization and subversive discourse. Above
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Fake News: Moderne Lügen entlarven und entspannt reagieren
Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau-Verlag (2019), 174 pp.
"Thorben Prenzel stellt in seinem Buch die Triple-A-Methode vor, die eine einfache Handlungsanleitung für den Alltag bietet. Diese verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt Anleitung hilft Ihnen, gekonnt die richtigen Argumente zur richtigen Zeit anzubringen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xix, 283 pp.
"This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider soci
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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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Una breve guía de la historia de las ‘noticias falsas’ y la desinformación: Un módulo de aprendizaje para periodistas y educadores de periodismo
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2019), 21 pp.
"Esta guía instruccional está diseñada para el uso de periodistas, facilitadores, académicos y estudiantes con el fin de contextualizar la crisis de las ‘noticias falsas’ del siglo 21. Por medio de algunos casos relevantes y un cronograma, los usuarios podrán informarse de manera más efect
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Muss man wissen … über Verschwörungstheorien
iz3w, issue 371 (2019), pp. 19-39
"Verschwörungstheorien sind kein Alleinstellungsmerkmal der Rechten und des Rechtspopulismus, sie reichen bis weit in gesellschaftliche Mitte. Auch die linke Szene ist anfällig dafür. Das unreflektierte Gerede von »den Herrschenden«, »den Eliten« oder »den Großmächten« eröffnet eine Quer
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“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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Pistas para chequear: Cómo hacer periodismo de verificación de datos
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción (2019), 88 pp.
"Colombiacheck es el primer portal de Colombia dedicado principalmente a la verificación de datos. Nació en 2016 como un proyecto de la asociación de periodistas Consejo de Redacción. La motivación inicial para crear Colombiacheck fue hacer verificación a los datos y al discurso del proceso de
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¿Qué hacer frente a las fake news?
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2019), 30 pp.
"Para contestar la pregunta de qué hacer frente a las “Fake News”, se prohíbe dar respuestas simplistas. El presente dictamen argumenta que borrar “Fake News” de las redes sociales no es una panacea. Todo lo contrario: Los populistas percibirían su eliminación como una confirmación de s
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Disinformation and Electoral Campaigns
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2019), 40 pp.
Nachgefragt: Medienkompetenz in Zeiten von Fake News
Berlin: Zentralen für Politische Bildung, Sonderausg. (2019), 130 pp.
"Jugendliche informieren sich heute primär digital. Umso wichtiger ist es, dass sie bei der Nutzung von digitalen Medien in der Lage sind, Nachrichten und Informationsquellen richtig einzuordnen und wahre von falschen Meldungen zu unterscheiden. Dieses Buch gibt kompetent Auskunft zum Thema. Google
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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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Russian Information Warfare in Central and Eastern Europe: Strategies, Impact, and Countermeasures
Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund of the United States (2019), 19 pp.
"The dynamism of Russia’s information warfare is best illustrated by the fact that over the last decade it underwent at least two strategic shifts—after the Russian-Georgian war in 2008 and in 2014 when Russia went from being risk-averse and stealthy to increasingly aggressive and risk-taking. E
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