As a digital environment introduced for establishing and enhancing human communication through different social networks channels, media continued to develop spread at an incredible rate making it difficult find or imagine concept, technology, business that does not have plan its representation space. Concurrently, became playground even battlefield where ideas carrying out diverse validity deg...

Following the Russian meddling in 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of politicians, diplomats, civil society leaders identify as primary problems both policy contexts. But how do security institutions define policies, their securitization strategies chang...

This study aims to offer a critical analysis of V. S. Naipaul’s second Islamic travelogue Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998), which chronicles the author’s excursions to the 4 non-Arab Muslim countries of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. This critique is presented, firstly, through problematizing the author’s theorization on the theme of Muslim conversi...

Crowdsourced disinformation represents a two-sided-market model wherein platform organizer orchestrates the interaction between requesters and crowdworkers for fee. Academic research industry reports demonstrate that business is thriving its consequences can be severe; however, on this topic has focused mainly developing technical methods to detect disinformation, while leaving social aspects o...

Disinformation campaigns on online social networks (OSNs) in recent years have underscored democracy’s vulnerability to such operations and the importance of identifying dissecting their methods, intents, source. This paper is another milestone a line research political disinformation, propaganda, extremism OSNs. A total 40,000 original Tweets (not re-Tweets or Replies) related U.S. 2020 presid...

The increasing prevalence of disinformation has led to a growing interest in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for detecting and combating this phenomenon. This article presents thematic analysis the potential benefits automated detection from perspective information sciences. covers range approaches, including fact checking, linguistic analysis, sentiment utilization human-in-the-loop sy...

In the midst of heated debates surrounding veracity and honesty communication, scholarly attention has turned to conceptualization mis- disinformation on supply-side (political) communication. Yet, we lack systematic research perceived demand-side. Original survey data collected in ten European countries ( N = 6,643) shows that news consumers distinguish general misinformation from disinformati...

To understand how beliefs about mis- and disinformation affect citizens’ (correct) classification of pseudo-information, this paper relies on an experimental survey study in the United States Netherlands which we (a) measured attitudes, (b) exposed participants to a real versus fake article immigration criminality, (c) compared classifications response news article. The main findings indicate t...

This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between young people in Mexico and disinformation, while shedding light on their practices perceptions around this phenomenon. I have chosen a qualitative perspective delve into ways that Mexican college students interact deal with growing problem false news current media landscape. Thus, conducted semi-structured interviews (N = 2...

Every year on April 1st, people play practical jokes one another and news websites fabricate false stories with the goal of making fools their audience. In an age disinformation, Facebook under fire for allowing “Fake News” to spread platform, every day can feel like Fools’ day. We create a dataset hoax articles build set features based past research examining deception, humour, satire. Analysi...