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Combate à desinformação sobre a Amazônia legal e seus defensores
São Paulo: Intervozes (2023), 59 pp.
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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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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Countermeasures for Mitigating Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review
Deep Insights
Zurich: International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) (2023), 40 pp.
"This Synthesis Report provides a formal systematic review of scientific literature on countermeasures for mitigating digital misinformation. 588 peer-reviewed global publications from many disciplines were the focus of this study in order to highlight the most effective countermeasures for mitigati
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Platform Responses to Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis of Data
Deep Insights
Zurich: International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) (2023), 70 pp.
"This Synthesis Report examines the effectiveness of countermeasures against misinformation on social media platforms, focusing on the two most examined remedies: content labeling and corrective information interventions. A meta-analysis is a research process for synthesizing and aggregating the fin
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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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Online Content Moderation and Post Conflict Peacebuilding: A Review to the Regulatory Framework in Colombia
Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP); UNESCO (2023), 83 pp.
"This text is divided into four chapters. The first chapter describes the characteristics of online public debate in Colombia. It also presents the historical context and details the circumstances in which risky content for democracy and human rights content is published and disseminated in the coun
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Humour as a Strategic Tool Against Disinformation: Ukraine’s Response to Russia
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 35 pp.
"Ukraine has been building its capacity to use humour as a strategic communications tool since Russian first invasion in 2014. After Russia launched the full-scale war in February 2022, this often grassroots effort was multiplied by many new actors joining it. Foreign supporters of Ukraine stepped i
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Digital Platform Governance and the Challenges for Trust and Safety. Part 3: Possible Regulatory Solutions to Address Concerns with the Platforms
Research ICT Africa; UNESCO (2023), 19 pp.
"Platform problems are linked to the fact that they are not self-governing according to agreed industry standards but mainly ‘solo-governing’ when it comes to content curation and moderation. Reaction to the failure of current platform efforts to regulate content includes the danger of over-regu
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Social Media 4 Peace: Local Lessons for Global Practices
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.
"The three countries [Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Kenya] provide evidence of online hate speech and disinformation affecting human rights offline. The evidence is not comprehensive yet clear enough to raise serious concerns. Online gender-based violence is also reported as critical in the
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Vorsicht #Desinformation: Die Wirkung von desinformierenden Social Media-Posts auf die Meinungsbildung und Interventionen
Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (2023), 18 pp.
"Ziel dieser Studie war die Untersuchung der (langfristigen) Wirkung von Desinformation auf Social Media auf die Meinungsbildung sowie deren Einflussfaktoren. Der Fokus lag auf der Rolle von wiederholtem Kontakt mit Desinformation, auf der intervenierenden Wirkung von Aufklärungstexten und Warnhinw
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Addressing hate speech through education: A guide for policy-makers
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 68 pp.
"This guide for policy-makers developed by the United Nations’ Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (OSAPG) and UNESCO provides specific strategies and approaches to address hate speech within and through education. Countering harmful, discriminatory and violent narrativ
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From Disinformation to Fact-Checking: How Ibero-American Fact-Checkers on Twitter Combat Fake News
Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 1 (2023), 14 pp.
"In recent years, the disinformation phenomenon, brought about by the ease with which fake news and hoaxes spread on social networks, has grown considerably. Twitter, especially, is a network that from the outset has been closely linked to news processes that are widely used by journalists. It has b
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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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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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From Disinformation to Influence Operations: The Evolution of Disinformation in Three Electoral Cycles
Internews (2023), 56 pp.
"How has the Philippine disinformation landscape evolved since 2016? How different was the 2022 presidential election from previous electoral cycles? And what lessons can we learn from electoral triumphs and defeats often associated with disinformation? This report goes to the heart of these questio
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