Misinformation and disinformation pose major challenges to effective health communication around the globe during Covid-19 pandemic. In this special issue, we present research on mis- about in European context describe potential solutions for communication. More specifically, issue features articles that analyse (a) prevalence of beliefs their impact individuals, as well drivers these (b) effec...

The paper introduces a logical framework for negotiation among dishonest agents. The framework relies on the use of abductive logic programming as a knowledge representation language for agents to deal with incomplete information and preferences. The paper shows how intentionally false or inaccurate information of agents can be encoded in the agents’ knowledge bases. Such disinformation can be ...

In an influential analysis of the Pearl Harbor attack, published 40 years ago, Roberta Wohlstetter made her well-known distinction between “signal” and “noise” in the evaluation of intelligence. The signal, which conveys information about an enemy action or intention, may be lost, obscured, or distorted by noise in the form of disinformation, rumors, hoaxes, and a variety of other useless or mi...

Some recent systems accurately produce high-level situational awareness by mining traffic in Twitter. Where these systems have been successful, there has been no attempt to evaluate Twitter streams for source reliability and information credibility because the situations have not been adversarial. The use of Twitter in recent political dissent in the Mideast makes the need for computationally t...

The paper introduces a logical framework for negotiation among (dis)honest agents. The framework relies on the use of abductive logic programming as a knowledge representation language for agents to deal with incomplete information and preferences. The paper shows how intentionally false or inaccurate information of agents could be encoded in the agents’ knowledge bases. Such disinformation can...

Public service media (PSM) are widely acknowledged as part of the variety solutions to disinformation. The remit PSM, formed around values universality, equality, diversity, accuracy and quality, implies a responsibility fight disinformation by producing fact-based news content finding anti-disinformation solutions. In this article, we introduce framework for assessing how PSM organizations abl...

Disinformation is a worldwide problem and has been key scholarship in the last few years. This paper contributes to ongoing discussion on how disinformation spread social media. study uses mixed-methods approach (Social Network Analysis, Connected Concept Analysis Content Analysis) analyze four political discussions Twitter. The results show structure of asymmetric polarization, which one group...

The present study is an attempt to problematize the multivalent data in the cyberspace through the lenses of Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy of language. Adopting this linguistic philosophy approach is aimed at exploring the dichotomous question of whether cyberspace is a possibility for social power or it is a contributory cause of communicative discontinuity and henceforth a possibility fo...

When regulating hate speech and disinformation online, first, do not suppress ideas or viewpoints as such, second, protect other fundamental rights positive freedoms, only vertically but horizontally too, and, third, counteract private well government disinformation.

The present article aims to address a series of problems generated by the use artificial intelligence models for study creation and dissemination false information beginning from difficulties in defining classifying established terms, continuing exemplifying way some databases research field fake news are built ending noting differences their labeling