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Fake News machen Geschichte: Gerüchte und Falschmeldungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag (2017), 325 pp.
"Gerüchte und Falschmeldungen begleiten die Menschheitsgeschichte von Beginn an. Ihre politischen und militärischen Folgen waren oft verheerend. Mit dem Aufstieg von »Fake News« ist klar, dass Gerüchte und Falschmeldungen im Zeitalter der sozialen Medien geschichtsträchtiger sind als je zuvor.
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Soviet Subversion, Disinformation and Propaganda: How the West Fought Against it. An Analytic History, with Lessons for the Present
London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017), 7 pp.
"What were Soviet influence and disinformation campaigns? What did the West do about them? This study answers these questions, explaining the Cold War strategies followed by the USSR, as well as the Western response. Eleven case studies follow, each one examining a counter-disinformation tactic in d
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Finding the Truth Amongst the Fakes: Social Newsgathering in the Arab World
Qatar: Al Jazeera Media Institute (2017), 182 pp.
"[...] this book aims to draw from the experience of Arab journalists and experts in the Arab World to help journalists enhance their news verification and social newsgathering skills. We hope the publication contributes to the ongoing debate on techniques and ethics that surrounds user-generated co
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Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
Deep Insights
Data & Society Research Institute (2017), 104 pp.
"Internet subcultures take advantage of the current media ecosystem to manipulate news frames, set agendas, and propagate ideas. Far-right groups have developed techniques of 'attention hacking' to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic use of social media, memes, and bots - as
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Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Oxford: Computational Propaganda Research Project (2017), 36 pp.
"Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations created, often with public money, to help define and manage what is in the best interest of the public. We compare su
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"The share of interviewed persons who said that mass media in the Republic of Moldova behaves to a great extent responsibly to its audience remains at a very low level—8% (7% in September 2016, 8% in January 2016). However, as we can see in the chart below, there are also some good signs, despite
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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La désinformation et ses applications aux conflits internationaux via les médias: Comment une Afrique en quête de démocratie peut s'en protéger?
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 176 pp.
"La question des « fakes news » ou de la désinformation - on ne peut plus actuelle - se pose avec d’autant plus de légitimité et d’acuité que les mass media et les réseaux sociaux sont devenus incontournables. Le champ d’action de cette théorie de la désinformation ne relève plus seu
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Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy Making
Deep Insights
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2017), 107 pp.
"This report provides a new framework for policy-makers, legislators, researchers, technologists and practitioners working on the theoretical and practical challenges related to mis-, dis- and mal-information — the three elements of information disorder. While the historical impact of rumours and
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Perils of Perception 2017
Ipsos (2017), 42 slides
"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 38 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality … Things are not as bad as they seem ... Only a small minorit
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The Fake News Machine: How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the Public
Trend Micro (2017), 80 pp.
"The term “fake news” became increasingly common during the past year. While this concept has many synonyms—disinformation campaigns, cyber propaganda, cognitive hacking, and information warfare—it’s just one facet of the bigger problem: the manipulation of public opinion to affect the rea
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Fakepolítica: Democracia y digitalización
Nueva Sociedad, issue 269 (2017), pp. 40-147
Mecanismos de la posverdad
Lima: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), 152 pp.
"Alarmingly, the research reveals that fake news is a pervasive problem surrounding the Kenyan elections with 90% of respondents having seen false or inaccurate information and 87% viewing this information as being deliberately false. Why does this matter? An informed citizenry is vital to Kenya’s
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Submission to: Inquiry into Fake News
London: King’s College London, Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power (CMCP) (2017), 13 pp.
"1. There is no clear or consistent definition of fake news; 2. Fake news is not a new phenomenon, nor is it limited to social media; 3. There is a dearth of evidence about the scale, dissemination or effects of fake news; 4. Fake news is a symptom of much broader structural problems with our digita
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Rumour Has It: A Practice Guide to Working with Rumours
London: CDAC Network (2017), 44 pp.
"The guide is designed to help you develop a way of working with rumours. As with all humanitarian action, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, the guide aims to build your knowledge and understanding of rumours, and suggests key steps and considerations. A range of options and tools is
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The Counter-Narrative Handbook
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (2016), 66 pp.
The Counter-Narrative Monitoring & Evaluation Handbook
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2016), 55 pp.
"The aim of this handbook is to provide civil society campaigners with the knowledge and skills they need to undertake high quality counter-narrative campaign evaluations. It presents model frameworks and case studies of successful counter-narrative M&E, as well as a range of useful tools and resour
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