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Mobilizing Social Media Influencers: A European Approach to Oversight and Accountability
Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) (2023), 9 pp.
"Social media influencers impact our collective societal mindset by shaping our thoughts and opinions or setting agendas. Past research on social influence must be unpacked to understand how social media influencers effectively create content using authenticity co mpared to celebrity. Establishing a
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Gefühlte Wahrheiten: Orientierung in Zeiten postfaktischer Verunsicherung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 266 pp.
"Wirtschaftliche Sorgen, Zukunfts- und Abstiegsängste sowie fehlendes Vertrauen in Politik und Wissenschaft bilden, wie Ortwin Renn erläutert, einen idealen Nährboden für Desinformation und Populismus, indem Tatbestände durch Gefühle verdrängt werden. Renn verdeutlicht, welche mentalen, sozia
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How African countries respond to fake news and hate speech
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 1 (2023), pp. 86-103
"While scholars have already identified and discussed some of the most urgent problems in content moderation in the Global North, fewer scholars have paid attention to content regulation in the Global South, and notably Africa. In the absence of content moderation by Western tech giants themselves,
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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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Defunding Disinformation in the Balkans: How International Brands Support Russia’s Agenda
Brussels: Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI); CRTA (2023), 39 pp.
"This report examines advertising spending and practices in Serbia and Bulgaria, two Balkan states at a critical junction between European democracy and authoritarianism. Analysis of advertising data shows that major global brands are spending hundreds of millions of euros on advertising with outlet
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Lebanon's Information Environment: Exploring Appropriate Responses
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation; National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2023), 32 pp.
"The purpose of this study is twofold: to understand how the Lebanese public consumes news published on traditional and alternative media, with a focus on how they perceive and deal with disinformation campaigns and fake news, and to build a comprehensive view of the organizations and initiatives th
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Truth with a Z: Disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity
Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 39, issue 5 (2023), pp. 347-365
"This article offers a qualitative analysis of how, by adopting identity-related discourses whose meanings resonate within a given culture, Russian state propaganda strives to bolster “the truth status” of its Ukraine war claims. These discourses, we argue, have long historical lineages and thus
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Visual disinformation in a digital age: A literature synthesis and research agenda
New Media & Society, volume 25, issue 12 (2023), pp. 3696-3713
"Visuals are expected to amplify the impact of disinformation, but it is rarely specified how, and what exactly distinguishes them from text. This article is one of the first to treat visual disinformation as its own type of falsehood, arguing that it differs from textual disinformation in its produ
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"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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The Impact of Cognitive Biases on the Believability of Fake News
European Journal of Information Systems, volume 34, issue 1 (2023), pp. 72-93
"Modern technologies, especially social networks, contribute to the rapid evolution and spread of fake news. Although the creation of fake news is a serious issue, it is the believability of fake news and subsequent actions that produce negative outcomes that can be harmful to individuals and societ
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Putins Armee der Trolle: Der Informationskrieg des Kreml gegen die demokratische Welt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 397 pp.
"Im Ringen um die globale Deutungshoheit setzt die russische Regierung seit Jahren auf die Verbreitung von Desinformation. Die finnische Journalistin Jessikka Aro hat nicht nur derartige Propagandataktiken aufgedeckt, sie wurde auch selbst zur Zielscheibe orchestrierter Drohungen durch vom Kreml unt
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Preserving trust in democracy: The Brazilian Superior Electoral Court's quest to tackle disinformation in elections
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 30, issue 3 (2023), pp. 497-520
"Trust is the foundation on which democracy is built. Not coincidentally, it is the main victim of attacks by disinformation merchants bent on undermining the electoral process and the democratic environment. This article outlines the efforts of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to tackle
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Political Economy of Covert Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections
Deep Insights
Internews (2023), 168 pp.
"This report investigates the political economy of covert influence in the 2022 Philippine Elections, with a focus on social media influencers involved in covert political campaigning. This interdisciplinary research (1) examines political influencers and peripheral actors in the field engaged in po
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Panorama da infodemia socioambiental: Análise multiplataforma do ecossistema brasileiro de mídia digital 2021-2022
NetLab (2023), 75 pp.
"A desinformação ambiental é uma das pautas centrais na propaganda política da extrema-direita brasileira, servindo de argumento para o desmonte da proteção do meio ambiente e o avanço sistemático de atividades extrativistas no Brasil. Em última instância, nossos resultados apontam para a
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Fact or Fake? The Search for Truth in an Infodemic of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Malinformation with Deepfake and Fake News
Journal of Strategic Marketing (2023), 37 pp.
"This article aims to shed light on the infodemic of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation in the digital era of a new normal where deepfake and fake news are omnipresent. To do so, this article establishes a general theory of information and engages in big data analytics involving a sc
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Shielding Democracy: Civil Society Adaptations to Kremlin Disinformation About Ukraine
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2023), 30 pp.
"This report highlights adaptations and innovations by Ukrainians in their struggle against Moscow’s disinformation machine. As part of the project, the International Forum on Democratic Studies conducted more than fifty expert interviews and hosted a series of convenings with experts from Ukraine
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Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guides
Nairobi: Busara (2023), 46 pp.
"This guide does not require prior knowledge or experience in behavioral science. It will be relevant for you if you are an actor in a humanitarian setting look to: 1. Design a Theory of Change for a program aiming to change people’s beliefs or behaviors: This guide can be used by several actors.
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Striking the balance between fake and real: Under what conditions can media literacy messages that warn about misinformation maintain trust in accurate information?
Behaviour & Information Technology (2023), 13 pp.
"Although interventions that warn about the harms of misinformation may be effective in lowering the credibility of false information, they may also cause suspicion related to factually accurate information. To explore these contradictory outcomes of exposure to media literacy messages, we used an o
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