This article presents an attempt to understand the relationship between digital populism and post-truth politics. At first, we will try fuzzy semantic category of populism. Next, examine growth right-wing in Europe its main characteristics. Finally, analyze how current model networked communication, particularly direct anatomy social networks, become a fertile field for dissemination populist r...

Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities because the effect of accumulation emissions is difficult to understand. also many people's worldview any climate mitigation regime will have economic and political implications that are incompatible with libertarian ideals unregulated free markets. These created an environment rhetorical adversity in ...

The bounded confidence model has been widely used to formally study groups of agents who are sharing opinions with those in their epistemic neighborhood. We revisit the an eye toward studying mis- and disinformation campaigns, which have much news late. To that end, we introduce typed into model, specifically can be irresponsible different ways, most notably, by being deceitful, but also reluct...

Informed by two case studies of de-platforming interventions performed Facebook against high profile conspiracy theorists who had been messaging about Covid-19, this article investigates how functions as an instrument social control, illuminating the intended and unintended effects it induces. To help interpret patterns in data, novel conceptual innovations are introduced. The concept ‘minion a...

In this article, we investigate the socio-technical ecology of Twitter, including technological affordances platform and user-generated discursive strategies used to create circulate anti-Muslim disinformation online. During first wave Covid-19, right-wing followers claimed that Muslims were spreading virus perform Jihad. We analyzed a sample 7000 tweets using Critical Discourse Analysis examin...

Fact-checking alliances emerged worldwide to debunk political disinformation in electoral contexts because of social concerns related information authenticity. This study, thus, included the Latin American context fact-checking journalism studies as a journalistic practice fight disinformation. Through analyzing RedCheq, first alliance an regional led by Colombiacheck, 11 in-depth interviews we...

Social networks have surpassed their intermediary role and become gatekeepers of online content traffic. This transformation has favored the spread information disorders. The situation is especially alarming in Spain, where 57% Spaniards at some moment believed false news. Since 2016, First Draft promoted several collaborative verification projects that brought together newsrooms to fact-check ...