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Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 680 pp.
"Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life. This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon
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Countering Disinformation: A Guide to Promoting Information Integrity
Key Guides
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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Mídia, desinformação e democracia: Como os meios de comunicação influenciam as eleições presidenciais no Brasil
Revista Observatório, volume 6, issue 6 (2020), 24 pp.
"Este artigo visa analisar a cobertura dos meios de comunicação brasileiros nas eleições presidenciais realizadas no país a partir da redemocratização, começando com a de 1989 e finalizando com a de 2018. O estudo tomou como base teórica reflexões sobre desinformação, manipulação, fake
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Disinfodemic: Deciphering COVID-19 Disinformation
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 16 pp.
"COVID-19 disinformation creates confusion about medical science with immediate impact on every person on the planet, and upon whole societies. It is more toxic and more deadly than disinformation about other subjects. That is why this policy brief coins the term disinfodemic. Using this frame, the
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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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Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2020), xi, 395 pp.
Demand for Deceit: How the Way We Think Drives Disinformation
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2020), 38 pp.
"Just because the effectiveness of disinformation may be tied to innate aspects of human psychology does not mean that democratic societies are powerless to respond. Rather, civil society, journalists, and other stakeholders invested in the freedom and openness of the global information space should
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Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 13 pp.
"In this RISJ factsheet we identify some of the main types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation seen so far. We analyse a sample of 225 pieces of misinformation rated false or misleading by factcheckers and published in English between January and the end of March 2020, drawn from a colle
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Managing Misinformation in a Humanitarian Context: Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Study
Deep Insights
Internews (2019), 56 pp.
"Internews Rumour Tracking Methodology consists of four key functions: 1. A mechanism to determine and document which rumours are circulating; 2. An effective strategy to fact-check information and rumours; 3. A variety of accessible and inclusive mechanisms to share accurate responses to rumours; 4
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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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"The information ecosystem in DRC is fragmented and fragile. It is characterised by a great number of media outlets, however their level of professionalism is low and their vulnerability to partisan capture is high. This fragility is replicated in the online space. The Congolese population rely heav
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Boosting immunity to disinformation: Ukrainian students better detect false information after teachers integrate media literacy into standard subjects
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 23 slides
"Students who received Learn to Discern (L2D) lessons performed better on all assessment tasks: identifying facts and opinions, false stories, hate speech, and demonstrated deeper knowledge of the news media sector. L2D students reported healthier media consumption habits and behavior and viewed cri
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“Fake News” and Cyber-Propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recentering the Research Agenda
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 4 (2019), pp. 1-12
"Dominant narratives about the contemporary problem of “fake news” and cyber-propaganda have focused on how its evolution and manifestation has been closely linked with the rise of populist politics, digital capitalism, the transformation of the public sphere and structural weaknesses of liberal
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Muss man wissen … über Verschwörungstheorien
iz3w, issue 371 (2019), pp. 19-39
"Verschwörungstheorien sind kein Alleinstellungsmerkmal der Rechten und des Rechtspopulismus, sie reichen bis weit in gesellschaftliche Mitte. Auch die linke Szene ist anfällig dafür. Das unreflektierte Gerede von »den Herrschenden«, »den Eliten« oder »den Großmächten« eröffnet eine Quer
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Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent
London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 171 pp.
"Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018
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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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"Fake News," Dangerous Speech and Mass Violence: Challenges for Social Media in the Developing World
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 483-500
"The cases discussed in this chapter have demonstrated how disinformation and rhetoric that is spread through social media in the developing world often meets the Benesch criteria for dangerous speech. It comes from influential sources, which can include family and friends who share it. It plays on
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The Business of Misinformation: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lying for Profit
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 8 pp.
"The websites creating misinformation content in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be classified into four categories based on their financial and/or political motivations and the extent to which they provide valuable journalistic contributions. The majority of misinformation websites are motivated solely
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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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