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Multistakeholder Dialogue on Electoral Disinformation
Internews (2021), 34 pp.
"The Multistakeholder Dialogue on Electoral Disinformation (MDED) project sought the perspectives of pro-democracy actors and key agents in the electoral process to map out election integrity initiatives, assess organizational capacities for disinformation mitigation, and identify influence operatio
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A Race to the Bottom: Populism, Mis/Disinformation and South Africa's 2021 Election
Anti-Disinformation Project (2021), 103 pp.
"For analysing populist and dis- and minformation-driven campaigning, three sub-groupings of South African Twitter deserve particular attention. A) A community of radical populists made of black consciousness voices emphasising the struggle against 'white monopoly capital,' using this phrase as a di
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Countering Disinformation: A Guide to Promoting Information Integrity
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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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WhatsApp Audios and the Remediation of Radio: Disinformation in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Election
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 2 (2020), pp. 139-158
"This article brings the results of an investigation into the role of WhatsApp audio messages in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, proposing that instant voice messaging borrows elements from radio language. We started from a broader research, conducted by the Brazilian National Institute o
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International Conference on Fake News and Elections in Asia. Conference Proceedings
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2019), 22 pp.
Mapping Digital Disinformation Around Elections: A Case Study of Pakistan’s 2018 General Elections
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"The 2018 general election represented one of the first times digital disinformation occurred on a massive scale in Pakistan. This report examines different forms of disinformation that circulated online in the lead up to the 2018 elections and its impact on the country’s political discourse, and
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Disinformation and Electoral Campaigns
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2019), 40 pp.
Fakten statt Fakes: Verursacher, Verbreitungswege und Wirkungen von Fake News im Bundestagswahlkampf 2017
Berlin: Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (2018), 102 pp.
"Ziel dieser Studie ist es, empirische Fakten und Hintergründe zum Phänomen Fake-News in Deutschland zu liefern. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt darauf, wer an der Entstehung und Verbreitung von Fake News in der digitalen Öffentlichkeit beteiligt ist, wie groß die Reichweiten und wie erfolgreic
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Disinformation in Elections
Security and Human Rights, volume 29, issue 1/4 (2018), pp. 24-35
"In recent years there has been increasing attention to the potentially disruptive influence of disinformation on elections. The most common forms of disinformation in elections include the dissemination of ‘fake news’ in order to discredit opponents or to influence the voting process, the falsi
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"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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