OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of an index in increasing recognition of misleading problem framing in articles and manuscripts. DESIGN A propaganda index consisting of 32 items was developed drawing on related literature. Seventeen subjects who review manuscripts for possible publication were requested to read five recent published reports of randomized controlled trials concerning ...

Propaganda and surveillance are pervasive in contemporary society. Extensive literatures have developed around each. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is an important point of reference in both literatures. Orwell takes both propaganda and surveillance to extreme limits: total surveillance and total propaganda. Writing them large he brings important aspects of each into sharp relief, which i...

Evidence suggests that the Chinese government employs “Internet Commentators” to post propaganda on social media. This group is pejoratively nicknamed the “50 cent party” or Wumao. In this study, we make the first attempt to quantify the size and behavior of the Wumao. Our study leverages a large corpus of data from Sina Weibo (Twitter in China) that includes 26M tweets and comments from 2.7M u...

This research aims to compile data and information that will contribute understanding the online radicalization phenomenon through translation. There are many studies on using internet propaganda in a terrorism context. However, only handful studied correlation between translation propaganda, especially Indonesia. was little discussion role of bridging communication different nations, cultures,...

Will the information technology revolution make autocratic regimes easier to overthrow? Probably not. I describe a game between one such regime and a large number of individuals. Individuals face a coordination problem: the more people act against the regime, the more likely it is to be overthrown and the greater the incentive for any individual to also act against it. Individual decisions are ...

or propaganda. Propaganda is a wide term; it doesn't simply mean warning the people of the existence of an evil?tuberculosis in this instance?and working them up into a state of panic, nor, on the other hand, telling them^that they simply have to do is this or that, and all will be well?with them and their families at least. It is much more comprehensive than this. Unfortunately, during the las...

Propaganda campaigns have long been used to influence public opinion via disseminating biased and/or misleading information. Despite the increasing prevalence of propaganda content on Internet, few attempts made by AI researchers analyze such content. We introduce task multimodal processing, where goal is automatically believe that this presents a long-term challenge and successful processing c...