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Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda
London: Zed Books (2024), xiv, 242 pp.
"In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies to manufacture disinformation - employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt
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Addressing Gendered Disinformation: Review of Current Recommendations and the Case for Broadening Responses
Key Guidance
IREX (2023), 27 pp.
"This report summarizes and groups the most common recommendations to address gendered disinformation and analyzes gaps between the evidence base and the recommendations made to date. This review is aimed toward those who seek to develop solutions to gendered disinformation in its different forms, a
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Monetizing Misogyny: Gendered Disinformation and the Undermining of Women’s Rights and Democracy Globally
#ShePersisted (2023), 34 pp.
"This research aims to understand the patterns, impact and modus operandi of gendered disinformation campaigns against women in politics in Brazil, Hungary, India, Italy and Tunisia. The case studies explore how gendered disinformation has been used by political movements, and at times the governmen
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Gender-Based Disinformation: A Scoping Review of the Literature, 2013-2023
ex aequo, issue 48 (2023), pp. 125-145
"This article examines gender-based disinformation, highlighting findings and research gaps. A PRISMA review method was used, reviewing 143 articles from 2013 to early 2023. Only 14 studies directly assessed gender dimensions in disinformation. Outcomes show that Twitter is the most studied platform
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The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights
Newark: Wiley (2023), xv, 432 pp.
"The first major collection of its kind published in the COVID-19 era, this unique volume frames a wide range of issues relevant to the gender and communication agenda within a human rights framework. An international panel of feminist academics and activists examines how media, information, and com
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Online Gendered Disinformation and Sexist Hate Speech
International Media Support (IMS) (2023), 6 pp.
"This learning brief focuses on the issues of online gendered disinformation and sexist hate speech against women, girls and non-binary people who work or appear in the media and what media development organisations can do to address them." (Page 1)
An Underestimated Threat: Gendered Disinformation about Ukrainian Women Journalists
Women in Media;European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) (2023), 51 pp.
"Russia uses a strategy of gendered disinformation in Ukraine to silence women journalists and create a certain negative image of gender equality and the role of women in democratic societies. Online violence can take on a variety of worms: doxxing, sectoring, trolling, cyberstalking, threats of vio
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Unsocial media: Tracing and exposing gendered disinformation in Kosovo
National Democratic Institute (NDI);USAID;UNDP Kosovo (2023), 23 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to trace and detect gendered disinformation, a concerning trend in the dissemination of news and information through social and online media platforms. Disproportionate targeting based on gender and sexual orientation, especially those in the public eye like politician
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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)
Gendered disinformation: 6 reasons why liberal democracies need to respond to this threat. Policy brief
Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2021)
"Gendered disinformation is a form of identity-based disinformation that threatens human rightsworldwide. It undermines the digital and political rights, as well as the safety and security, of itstargets. Its effects are far-reaching: gendered disinformation is used to justify human rightsabuses and
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Policy Papers: Perspectives on Gendered Disinformation
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF);Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2021), 85 pp.
"Through these mediations on gendered disinformation, and the variety of perspectives that the authors bring, we call into question hegemonic structures of knowledge production. The anthology forces us to call into question the very idea of objectivity, blurring lines between 'truth' and 'lies'. The
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Authoritarianism and Gendered Disinformation: A Case Study of the Philippines
Washington, DC: Elliott School of International Affairs Global Capstone;#ShePersisted (2021), 39 pp.
"First, disinformation is enabled by the Philippines' history of colonialism and martial law, high social media usage and low digital literacy, compounding crises, strongman governance, and sexist and misogynist rhetoric from elected leaders. While the first three factors create conditions that gene
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The Gender Dimensions of Foreign Influence Operations
International Journal of Communication, volume 15 (2021), pp. 4596-4618
"Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 7,506 tweets by state-sponsored accounts from Russia’s GRU and the Internet Research Agency (IRA), Iran, and Venezuela, this article examines the gender dimensions of foreign influence operations. By examining the political communication of feminism and women
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Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online
Washington, DC: Wilson Center (2021), 61 pp.
"This report strives to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation. In an analysis of online conversations about 13 female politicians acr
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Countering Disinformation: A Guide to Promoting Information Integrity
Key Guidance
Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS);USAID (2020), [345 pp.]
"This resource combines the collective wisdom of organizations on the front lines of combatting disinformation globally. This living project provides an outline of what’s being done to address the challenge in key areas and provides a searchable database of the organizations around the world engag
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Weaponised Information in Brazil: Digitising Hate
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 18 pp.
"In the last few years, the world information ecosystem has been flooded by the “fake news” phenomena, augmented by the widespread use of social media. The fragmentation and scale of the new communication tools help spread old ideologies, that uphold racism, homophobia, and oppression. This phen
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