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Fake news: Acceptance by demographics and culture on social media
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 17, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-11
"Fake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the Arab Spring. While political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion in their messaging, social media has intensified its impact. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence
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Die Machtprobe: Wie Social Media unsere Demokratie verändern
Hamburg: Edition Körber, Sonderdruck für die Zentralen für politische Bildung (2020), 349 pp.
"Ammann hat den Aufstieg der sozialen Medien von Anfang an begleitet und zieht Bilanz: Sie bieten auf der einen Seite große Chancen für die Demokratie. Die effektive Nachbarschaftshilfe während der Pandemie oder der immense Erfolg von #fridaysforfuture und #blacklivesmatter basieren auf der Reich
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Double-Edged Sword? Ghanaians See Pros, Cons of Social Media, Want Access But Not Fake News
Afrobarometer (2020), 12 pp.
"The Afrobarometer survey conducted in late 2019 shows that although radio and television remain the most dominant news sources, daily news consumption via social media (by 22% of Ghanaians) and the Internet (19%) is steadily increasing. Social media is less trusted as a source of information – on
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Engendering Hate: The Contours of State-Aligned Gendered Disinformation Online
London: Demos (2020), 40 pp.
"Online spaces are being systematically weaponised to exclude women leaders and to undermine the role of women in public life. Attacks on women which use hateful language, rumour and gendered stereotypes combine personal attacks with political motivations, making online spaces dangerous places for w
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Freedom on the Net 2020: The Pandemic's Digital Shadow
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 33 pp.
"Three notable trends punctuated an especially dismal year for internet freedom. First, political leaders used the pandemic as a pretext to limit access to information. Authorities often blocked independent news sites and arrested individuals on spurious charges of spreading false news. In many plac
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The Debunking Handbook 2020
Key Guides
Databrary (2020), 19 pp.
"The handbook is a consensus document that was created by an innovative process that involved a series of predefined steps, all of which were followed and documented and are publicly available. The authors were invited based on their scientific status in the field, and they all agreed on all points
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Catholic Church and the Public Sphere: Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression
Roma: Edizioni Santa Croce (2019), 156 pp.
"This book gathers the main conferences and a selection of the communication of the eleventh edition of the Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices: Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression in the Public Sphere, organized by the School of Church Communications of the Pontifical Uni
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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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The False Information Ecosystem in India
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 20 pp.
"Over the past few years, internet access and adoption in India has grown tremendously, giving Indians more access to the online information ecosystem than ever before. Today, India is one of the largest markets for technology platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook. However, the adoption of these t
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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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Elections and Media in Digital Times
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 67 pp.
"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face
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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 Business of Misinformation: Hungary. Pushing Politics, Picking Pockets
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.
"It is almost impossible to obtain information about who is behind Hungarian misinformation websites; financial information about them is even harder to come by; Hungarian misinformation websites fall on the spectrum from purely ideological sites to simple moneymaking machines; Facebook appears to b
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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)
¿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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Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: A framework and research agenda
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 43, issue 2 (2019), pp. 97-116
"Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that ‘fake news’ alludes to two dimensions of political communication: the fake news genre (i.e. the deliberate creation of pseudojournalistic disinformation) and the fake news label (i.e. the instrumentalization of the term to delegitimize ne
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Digital News Report 2019
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 153 pp.
"Despite the efforts of the news industry, we find only a small increase in the numbers paying for any online news – whether by subscription, membership, or donation. Growth is limited to a handful of countries mainly in the Nordic region (Norway 34%, Sweden 27%) while the number paying in the US
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