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Desinformación y conflictividad en Bolivia 2019-2021
La Paz: Fundación UNIR (2022), 77 pp.
"Este estudio aborda el modo cómo la desinformación propalada principalmente a través de las redes sociales digitales, pero también en sitios web y medios periodísticos, ha contribuido a alimentar los conflictos y cómo éstos han dado lugar a más desinformación. Asimismo desentraña los prop
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Addressing Hate Speech: Educational Responses
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 14 pp.
"This paper will discuss the challenges and opportunities of addressing both online and offline hate speech through education and recommend comprehensive approaches for effective educational strategies. Incorporating context-based teaching and learning practices that promote responsible global citiz
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"The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable." (Introduction)
FactShala Media Literacy Initiative in India: An Impact Evaluation
Center for Media Studies (2022), 103 pp.
"From September 2020 to January 2021, 253 trainers delivered the FactShala training program to 23,347 adults in communities across India. The FactShala media literacy training program launched by Internews […], is an effective mechanism for spreading media and information literacy and building res
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Information
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 22 pp.
"To summarise, three factors define information manipulation today in the observed countries. First, there is continuous enhancement of disinformation technical abilities to overcome the measures taken by IT platforms and make disinformation look more trustworthy, especially using AI. Second, grand
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A systematic literature review and existing challenges toward fake news detection models
Social Network Analysis and Mining, volume 12, issue 168 (2022), 21 pp.
"This paper aims to conduct a review on fake news detection models that is contributed by a variety of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The fundamental and well-performing approaches that existed in the past years are reviewed and categorized and described in different datasets. Furthe
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Countering disinformation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms
United Nations, General Assembly (2022), 19 pp.
"The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/227. In it, the Secretary-General describes the challenges posed by disinformation and the responses to it, sets out the relevant international legal framework and discusses measures that States and technology enterprises re
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Mapping the Website and Mobile App Audiences of Russia’s Foreign Communication Outlets, RT and Sputnik, Across 21 Countries
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 3, issue 6 (2022), 17 pp.
"Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, policymakers worldwide have taken measures to curb the reach of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik. Mapping the audiences of these outlets in 21 countries, we show that in the quarter before the invasion, at least via their official we
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COVID-19, Vaccination, and Conspiracies: A Micro-Level Qualitative Study in Islamabad, Pakistan
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, volume 95, issue 2 (2022), pp. 177-190
"Although vaccination is the only hope to fight against COVID-19, existing vaccine hesitancy is a thought-provoking phenomenon. Significantly, vaccine hesitancy is worsening the situation in Pakistan, leading to an increased number of COVID cases. In this context, this study aims to examine people
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Toolkit for Tackling Misinformation on Noncommunicable Diseases
Copenhagen: World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for Europe (2022), ix, 93 pp.
"In the first part, Understanding the problem, the Toolkit provides an overview of the health misinformation landscape, particularly in relation to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and expands on the roles of gatekeepers and sources before describing the problem as multilayered and requiring compreh
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Disinformation, Hoaxes, Curation and Verification: Review of Studies in Ibero-America 2017-2020
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 648-668
"This article is aligned with the recommendations of the main international organizations that fight against disinformation and infodemic, providing a review work that can be useful for researchers, professionals and scholars of the subject. Review articles like this one also help to establish futur
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The Vladimirror Network: Pro-Putin Power-Users on Facebook
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 11 pp.
"Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) researchers identified key pro-Putin accounts with two or more duplicates engaged in administering, moderating, and contributing to large public Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of members fawning over the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russia
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A Systematic Literature Review on Fake News in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Can AI Propose a Solution?
Applied Sciences (MDPI), volume 12, issue 12727 (2022), 19 pp.
"This paper aims to unpack a structured overview of previous research topics and findings and identify gaps. Our goal in this systematic review is to (a) synthesize the selected earlier studies, (b) offer researchers a structural framework for future COVID-19 and fake news research, and (c) recommen
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Disinformation studies: Perspectives from an emerging field
Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior; LabCom (2022), 299 pp.
"It all started at the ECREA 2021 Post Conference “Disinformation Studies: Perspectives to An Emerging Research Field”, which took place online, on September 10, 2021. The debate there quickly widened and was joined by other colleagues. The book that we bring you here is the result of part of th
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Authoritarians on a Media Offensive in the Midst of War: The Informational Influence of Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and the Gulf States in Southeast Europe
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), iii, 127 pp.
"The publication analyzes the emerging trends of foreign authoritarian-state disinformation in the context of the war in Ukraine in a comparative manner focusing on 7 states of Southeast Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania). It examines
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Populist attitudes and politicians’ disinformation accusations: Effects on perceptions of media and politicians
Journal of Communication, volume 72, issue 6 (2022), pp. 619-632
"Populist politicians increasingly accuse opposing media of spreading disinformation or “fake news.” However, empirical research on the effects of these accusations is scarce. This survey experiment (N = 1,330) shows that disinformation accusations reduce audience members’ trust in the accused
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Conteúdo nocivo: A Meta protege a integridade eleitoral no Brasil?
NetLab; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2022), 12 pp.
"Analisamos uma amostra do conteúdo denunciado ao TSE, a fim de verificar se, de fato, a Meta removeu ou indicou a presença de desinformação nestas publicações. Os resultados apontam que parcelas expressivas das publicações denunciadas e já diagnosticadas como nocivas por checadores de fato
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Who is Afraid of Fake News? Modeling Risk Perceptions of Misinformation in 142 Countries
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 3, issue 3 (2022), 13 pp.
"Using survey data from 154,195 respondents in 142 countries, we investigate internet user perceptions of the risks associated with being exposed to misinformation. We find that: 1) The majority of regular internet users globally (58.5%) worry about misinformation, and young and low-income groups ar
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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Deep Insights
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2022), 50 pp.
"The CEU Democracy Institute's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) embarked in November 2020 on a one-year project aimed at mapping and analyzing the work of the world's fact-checking groups, with a focus on their challenges, needs and successes. The project started with a survey of 30 fact-ch
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We Love to Hate George Soros: A Cross-Platform Analysis of the Globalism Conspiracy Theory Campaign in Brazil
Convergence, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 983–1006
"The proliferation of conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros and the ‘Globalist invasion’ had been concentrated primarily in Eastern Europe, Russia and the United States. However, since Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential victory in Brazil, Soros has become a target of the far-right in the cou
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