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The Effects of Flagging Propaganda Sources on News Sharing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Twitter
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 4 (2023), pp. 909–928
"While research on flagging misinformation and disinformation has received much attention, we know very little about how the flagging of propaganda sources could affect news sharing on social media. Using a quasi-experimental design, we test the effect of source flagging on people’s actual sharing
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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.
"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists,
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Narrative über den Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine (NUK)
Bonn; Berlin: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2023), 30 pp.
"Zwischen dem 19.09.2022 und 18.09.2023 wurde das Projekt „Narrative über den Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine“ (NUK, im Folgenden NUK) vom Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD Germany) im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb umgesetzt. Ziel des Projekts war es, Desinformati
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Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 2 (2023), pp. 116-133
"Amid a rise of misinformation worldwide, this paper examines digital misinformation literacy as it relates to COVID-19 news in East Africa. The study is grounded in inoculation theory and contributes to the body of scholarship examining misinformation literacy beyond the Western world. Data came fr
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Desinformation: Herausforderung für die Demokratie. Einstellungen und Wahrnehmungen in Europa
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2023), 38 pp.
"Europaweit haben 52 Prozent derjenigen, die bereits einen Account gemeldet haben, häufig oder sehr häufig Desinformation wahrgenommen. Von denen, die dies nicht getan haben, sagen das nur 36 Prozent. Hingegen geben die beiden Gruppen in etwa gleichem Umfang (58 beziehungsweise 53 Prozent) an, hä
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Is Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Effective? Evidence from Ukraine
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 1 (2023), pp. 5-28
"Can residents of Ukraine discern between pro-Kremlin disinformation and true statements? Moreover, which pro-Kremlin disinformation claims are more likely to be believed, and by which audiences? We present the results from two surveys carried out in 2019—one online and the other face-to-face—th
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Countering Disinformation Tools and Initiatives in the Philippines
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2023), 37 pp.
"As can be gleaned from this report, anti-disinformation initiatives are diverse and creative, but whether they’re for prevention, monitoring and identification, or contextualization and correction, the current initiatives can be scaled up and new ones added. Firstly, the initiatives have still to
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A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, volume 30, issue 4 (2023), pp. 752-760
"We provide a scoping review of Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) that mitigate COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation seeding and spread. Materials and Methods: We applied our search protocol to PubMed, PsychINFO, and Web of Science to screen 1666 articles. The 17 articles included in this pa
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Safer TikTok: Strategien im Umgang mit Antisemitismus und Hassrede auf TikTok
Frankfurt am Main: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank (2023), 53 pp.
"Verschwörungstheoretiker*innen, Antisemit*innen und Rassist*innen haben sich ein Standbein auf TikTok gebaut – das berichten Expert*innen und bildungspolitische Akteur*innen immer wieder. Besonders in Krisenzeiten hat diese Art Content Konjunktur – so etwa während der Corona-Pandamie oder der
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Deepening the Response to Authoritarian Information Operations in Latin America
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2023), 29 pp.
"The essays in this report deepen our understanding of the escalating and evolving threats posed by global authoritarianism. While responses to authoritarian information manipulation have been robust in many ways across Latin America, much more can be done to counter it and enhance the quality of in
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Blurring the Truth: Disinformation in Southeast Europe
Deep Insights
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2023), iii, 281 pp.
"This is neither the first nor the last study of disinformation. Yet it differs significantly from others in many regards. Firstly, it is the first and only study summarizing the state of disinformation in Southeast Europe. While regional studies abound, none so far has looked at all countries of th
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Desinformação e a campanha contra a imprensa: Análise do ecosistema de mídias e propaganda digital multiplataforma
NetLab; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2023), 56 slides
"Uma campanha anti-imprensa permanente força e acelera a perda de credibilidade da mídia profissional. Os ataques são orquestrados e contam com um ecossistema de desinformação bem estruturado e auto-sustentável. A campanha é financiada por políticos de pequena expressão e veículos de junk.
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The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed. (2023), 246 pp.
"If journalism is a cornerstone of democracy, says author Brooke Borel, then fact-checking is its building inspector. In this second edition of her guide to the why, what, and how of editorial fact-checking, Borel covers the evolving media landscape, with new guidance on checking audio and video sou
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Evaluation finale: « Projet renforcement de la résilience communautaire à la désinformation dans les régions du nord et du centre du Mali »
Search for Common Ground (2023), 57 pp.
"Les objectifs du projet cadrent bien avec un certain nombre de politiques ou stratégies comme décrit dans le présent rapport. A titre d’exemple, on citer la politique nationale de lutte contre le terrorisme et l’extrémisme violent dans son Pilier 1, ainsi que la stratégie nationale de la r
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The Media Manipulation Casebook
Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2023)
"The Media Manipulation Casebook is a research platform [launched in 2019] that advances knowledge of misinformation and disinformation and their threats to democracy, public health, and security. The Casebook is a resource for building the field of Critical Internet Studies by equipping researchers
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Fabricating a war? Russian (dis)information on Ukraine
International Affairs, volume 99, issue 5 (2023), pp. 2015-2036
"Propaganda has been an age-old part of warmongering. It is thus no surprise that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was preceded by, and continues to be fuelled by, propaganda transmitted by state-controlled Russian media. What is more unusual about the Russian (dis)information campaigns is the sheer
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Co-Designing a Mobile-Based Game to Improve Misinformation Resistance and Vaccine Knowledge in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda
Journal of Health Communication, volume 28, issue suppl. 2 (2023), pp. 49-60
"Misinformation can decrease public confidence in vaccines, and reduce vaccination intent and uptake. One strategy for countering these negative impacts comes from inoculation theory. Similar to biological vaccination, inoculation theory posits that exposure to a weakened form of misinformation can
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How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went From Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil
Social Media + Society, volume 9, issue 1 (2023), 11 pp.
"The popular encrypted messaging and chat app WhatsApp played a key role in the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. The present study builds on this knowledge and showcases how the app continued to be used in a governmental operation spreading false and misleading information pop
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Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 1: Why Lies and Hatred Proliferate on Digital Platforms
Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 21 pp.
"Online and platform content that may cause harm through the breach of human rights is sufficiently widespread to have raised concerns about the potentially severe implications for the future of trust, safety, democracy and sustainable development. A certain amount of this content is curbed by the d
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Who Are the Plotters Behind the Pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Google Search Results Across Five Key Target Countries of Russia’s Foreign Communication
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2033-2051
"This article advances extant research that has audited search algorithms for misinformation in four respects. Firstly, this is the first misinformation audit not to implement a national but a cross-national research design. Secondly, it retrieves results not in response to the most popular query te
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