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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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"[...] la présente note d’orientation expose les principes potentiels d’un code de conduite qui aidera à guider les États Membres, les plateformes numériques et les autres parties prenantes dans les efforts qu’ils déploient pour rendre l’espace numérique plus inclusif et plus sûr pour
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Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Social Media + Society, volume 9, issue 1 (2023), 13 pp.
"Alarmist narratives about online misinformation continue to gain traction despite evidence that its prevalence and impact are overstated. Drawing on research examining the use of big data in social science and reception studies, we identify six misconceptions about misinformation and highlight the
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Panorama da infodemia socioambiental: Análise multiplataforma do ecossistema brasileiro de mídia digital 2021-2022
NetLab (2023), 75 pp.
"A desinformação ambiental é uma das pautas centrais na propaganda política da extrema-direita brasileira, servindo de argumento para o desmonte da proteção do meio ambiente e o avanço sistemático de atividades extrativistas no Brasil. Em última instância, nossos resultados apontam para a
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Gefühlte Wahrheiten: Orientierung in Zeiten postfaktischer Verunsicherung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 266 pp.
"Wirtschaftliche Sorgen, Zukunfts- und Abstiegsängste sowie fehlendes Vertrauen in Politik und Wissenschaft bilden, wie Ortwin Renn erläutert, einen idealen Nährboden für Desinformation und Populismus, indem Tatbestände durch Gefühle verdrängt werden. Renn verdeutlicht, welche mentalen, sozia
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Brazilian Fake News Bill: Strong Content Moderation Accountability but Limited Hold on Platform Market Power
Javnost: The Public, volume 30, issue 2 (2023), pp. 253-267
"This article analyses the Brazilian PL 2630, so-called “fake news bill,” according to platform regulation approaches focused on speech, data, and market power. This law project was introduced in 2020 with the objective to fight disinformation campaigns in digital platforms such as social media
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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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Deepfakes – When We Can No Longer Believe Our Eyes and Ears. Media Manipulation in Conflict: Challenges and Responses
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2023), 6 pp.
"Deception and media manipulation have always been an integral part of wartime propaganda. But never before has it been so easy to create high-quality fabrications of images as well as sound and video recordings. The tendency to react emotionally to these media opens up a whole new possibility for a
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Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guides
Nairobi: Busara (2023), 46 pp.
"This guide does not require prior knowledge or experience in behavioral science. It will be relevant for you if you are an actor in a humanitarian setting look to: 1. Design a Theory of Change for a program aiming to change people’s beliefs or behaviors: This guide can be used by several actors.
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Disinformation exports: How foreign anti-vaccine narratives reached West African communities online
First Draft (2023)
"Pro-Russian disinformation networks and American anti-science websites are pushing anti-vaccine content that is reaching large West African Facebook Pages and Groups. These networks are spreading social media posts and articles that contain misleading messages about Covid-19 vaccines. These message
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Visual disinformation in a digital age: A literature synthesis and research agenda
New Media & Society, volume 25, issue 12 (2023), pp. 3696-3713
"Visuals are expected to amplify the impact of disinformation, but it is rarely specified how, and what exactly distinguishes them from text. This article is one of the first to treat visual disinformation as its own type of falsehood, arguing that it differs from textual disinformation in its produ
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Combate à desinformação sobre a Amazônia legal e seus defensores
São Paulo: Intervozes (2023), 59 pp.
Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 6 (2023), pp. 803-823
"In the battle against misinformation, do negative spillover effects of communicative efforts intended to protect audiences from inaccurate information exist? Given the relatively limited prevalence of misinformation in people’s news diets, this study explores if the heightened salience of misinfo
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The Psychological Impacts and Message Features of Health Misinformation: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
European Psychologist, volume 28, issue 3 (2023), pp. 162-172
"What does health misinformation look like, and what is its impact? We conducted a systematic review of 45 articles containing 64 randomized controlled trials (RCTs; N = 37,552) on the impact of health misinformation on behaviors and their psychological antecedents. We applied a planetary health per
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Countermeasures for Mitigating Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review
Deep Insights
Zurich: International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) (2023), 40 pp.
"This Synthesis Report provides a formal systematic review of scientific literature on countermeasures for mitigating digital misinformation. 588 peer-reviewed global publications from many disciplines were the focus of this study in order to highlight the most effective countermeasures for mitigati
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Consuming Digital Disinformation: How Filipinos Engage with Racist and Historically Distorted Online Political Content
Singapore: ISEAS (2023), 27 pp.
"This report examines why the precarious middle class in the Philippines has been particularly susceptible to digital disinformation. It focuses on two key imaginaries that disinformation producers weaponized in the year leading up to the 2022 national elections. The first was a long-simmering anti-
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Fake News, Disinformation and Misinformation in Social Media: A Review
Social Network Analysis and Mining, volume 13, issue 30 (2023), 36 pp.
"This work aims to provide a comprehensive and systematic review of fake news research as well as a fundamental review of existing approaches used to detect and prevent fake news from spreading via OSNs. We present the research problem and the existing challenges, discuss the state of the art in exi
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Humour as a Strategic Tool Against Disinformation: Ukraine’s Response to Russia
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 35 pp.
"Ukraine has been building its capacity to use humour as a strategic communications tool since Russian first invasion in 2014. After Russia launched the full-scale war in February 2022, this often grassroots effort was multiplied by many new actors joining it. Foreign supporters of Ukraine stepped i
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Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics: Populism, Disinformation and the Public Sphere
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii, 259 pp.
"This open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network on "Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation of European Integration" since 2019. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of the network's member
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