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An exploratory analysis of COVID bot vs human disinformation dissemination stemming from the Disinformation Dozen on Telegram
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2021 led to a worldwide health crisis that was accompanied by an infodemic. A group of 12 social media personalities, dubbed...
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Detecting science-based health disinformation: a stylometric machine learning approach
The COVID-19 pandemic showed that misleading scientific health information has become widespread and is challenging to counteract. Some of this...
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From Dezinformatsiya to Disinformation A Critical Analysis of Strategies and Effect on the Digital Public Sphere
The book takes a critical look at the phenomenon of disinformation by identifying the historical, technological and human elements that contribute to...
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The opportunity costs of the politics of division and disinformation in the context of the twenty-first century security deficit
In the context of increasingly dynamic global threats to security, which exceed current institutional capabilities to address them, this paper...
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Research on Disinformation: State of the Art and New Methodological Proposals
The disinformation phenomenon raises various and very interdisciplinary questions on which the scientific community has often clashed. An issue on...
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The Contextual Conditions: The Factors that Today Contribute to the Successful Disinformation
Usually, disinformation phenomenon is discussed following the web and social media evolution, thus excluding numerous elements that have contributed...
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Second Level. The Effect of Disinformation Content on Users’ Opinion
To analyze the effect of disinformation on the digital public sphere, the analysis on the Italian case was conducted by building a methodological...
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First Level: The Anatomy of the Disinformation Message Between Narratives and Adopted Strategies
To analyze the complexity of disinformation phenomenon on social media platforms, the analysis on the Italian case was conducted by building a...
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Content Analysis in the Research Field of Disinformation
Various recent events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the European elections in 2019, were marked by the discussion about potential consequences of...
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How to Defend Against Covid Related Disinformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has reconfirmed an understanding that has already been recognized over the years: a systematic and well-organized...
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Building Trust in Digital Journalism: Countering Fake News, Misinformation and Disinformation
Journalism, once a highly specialised field built on the concept of the ‘journalistic truth’, the professional discipline of assembling and verifying...
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COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence...
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Teachers’ views on disinformation and media literacy supported by a tool designed for professional fact-checkers: perspectives from France, Romania, Spain and Sweden
The current media eco-system has become more and more polluted by the various avatars of “fake news”. This buzz term has been widely used by...
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The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity
For decades, corporate undermining of scientific consensus has eroded the scientific process worldwide. Guardrails for protecting science-informed...
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Web of Lies: Mapping the Narratives, Effects, and Amplifiers of Russian Covid-19 Disinformation
The web of lies surrounding COVID-19 has been purposefully exacerbated by hostile actors, with researchers, analysts, and policymakers alike...
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COVID-19 Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation During the Pandemic Infodemic: A View from the United Kingdom
The global pandemic has highlighted that despite the vast medical, economic and social mitigations being rightly focused on its impact, the use of...
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AI as a Catalyst for Good Governance: Transforming South Africa��s Fight Against Corruption
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers opportunities to advance good governance and combat corruption in South Africa, presenting a path to restore...
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The Corona Truth Wars: Epistemic Disputes and Societal Conflicts around a Pandemic—An Introduction to the Special Issue
Ever since the start of the Corona pandemic, different and often conflicting views have emerged about the virus and how to appropriately deal with...
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From Military Strategy to the Militarization of Information
To fully understand how dangerous the current disinformation phenomenon has become for democratic processes it is necessary to look at its historical...
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Identifying and Evaluating the Socioeconomic Factors of COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Through an Integrated Multicriteria Decision Analysis Approach
The governments have been facing the challenges to develop tailored strategies to decrease COVID vaccine hesitancy (CVH) and refusal and increase the...
