COVID-19 has accelerated the use of social data to spread fake news, misinformation, and disinformation. Technology countermeasures alone are not sufficient address ongoing problem malicious data.

Abstract This paper develops a novel account of the nature disinformation that challenges several widely spread theoretical assumptions, such as is species information, misinformation, essentially false or misleading, intended/aimed/having function generating beliefs in/misleading hearers. The defends view ignorance content: on this account, X in context C iff content unit communicated at has d...

Recent research has mainly used two approaches to identify publishers or sources of disinformation: First, alternative media are identified as potential disinformation. Second, disinformation via fact-checking websites. Samples created using those can partly overlap. However, the differ in terms validity and comprehensiveness population. Sampling outlets is theory-driven allows for cross-nation...

Introduction: The continuing pandemic crisis represents a factor of profound destabilization, because it has exacerbated the phenomena already in place. In particular, social distancing, physical immobility have definitively shifted construction public discourse on network, thus, giving rise to what is called “platform society”, where platforms that produce structures which we live. Research Ai...

Abstract Modern neural language models can be used by malicious actors to automatically produce textual content looking as it has been written genuine human users. Due progress in the controllability of computer-generated text, there is a risk that state-sponsored may start using such methods for conducting large-scale information operations. Various detection algorithms have suggested research...

Online communities have evolved beyond the realm of social phenomenon to become important knowledge-sharing media with real economic consequences. However, the sharing of knowledge and the communication of meaning through Internet technology presents many difficulties. This is particularly important in the realm of online finance forums where market sensitive information and disinformation is r...