Elon Musk’s focus on the number of bots on Twitter, whether genuine or a distraction, does little to address the problems of misinformation and spam. A pair of social media experts explain why.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Disinformation
Displaying 101 - 120 of 238 articles
There’s a tension between facilitating free and fair debate on social media, and businesses’ bottom line. And it must be resolved with the public interest in mind.
The reasons for the prominence of the Ukraine war in the West are many – and include the Ukrainian government’s strategic efforts to tailor presentations of the conflict for Western sensibilities.
A team analyzed more than 21 million tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and found that negative sentiments on social media were tied to lower-than-expected vaccination rates in many nations.
Elon Musk said he wants to make Twitter a platform for free speech. Here is what research shows about claims of political bias and excessive moderation.
Deepfakes — manipulated images of people — can be difficult to distinguish from the real thing, and this has terrifying consequences for democracy.
Online campaigns in Vietnam are falsely maligning Ukrainians and discrediting the legitimacy of international organizations. It’s all at odds with the aims of the Vietnamese government.
From voting info to risqué quips, this election, online political ads are more pervasive than ever before.
We’re already seeing signs of disinformation on social media ahead of the federal election.
Public trust in elections is being targeted by disinformation campaigns around the world.
Twitter, more than other social media platforms, fosters real-time discussion about events as they unfold. That could change now that Musk has gained control of the company.
The Russian Embassy in Canada is active in spreading disinformation and promoting the Russian perspective on the events taking place in Ukraine.
By linking different issues together, organisations show the importance of approaching information disorder as a complex problem requiring various responses.
Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine wasn’t built over just a few months in 2021. Putin and high-level Russia government staff have been trash-talking Ukraine for more than a decade.
Cyberattacks can be devastating, just not on the battlefield, according to researchers who looked at 10 years of armed conflicts around the world.
Efforts to fight online disinformation often give oxygen to the very things they’re trying to fight.
In China, social media is being censored to reflect pro-Russian sentiment, making it impossible to gauge public opinion of Chinese people on the Russian invasion.
The system behind apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp isn’t neutral. It encodes political communication, influencing what users see.
For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the app has been a key point-of-contact for communication with his own people and the rest of the world.
Increased media literacy education and government regulations are necessary to combat fake information on social media platforms.
Job Board
-
Student & Academic Services Officer
-
Dean (Head of School), Indigenous Knowledges
-
Senior Research Fellow - Curtin Institute for Energy Transition (CIET)
-
Laboratory Head - RNA Biology
-
Head of School, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
Top contributors
-
Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
-
Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
-
Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
-
Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
-
Lecturer in Journalism, University of Sheffield
-
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, School of Media and Strategic Communications, Oklahoma State University
-
Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
-
Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
-
Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History, Stanford University
-
Professor of Practice of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Professor of Law, University of Waikato
-
Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University
-
Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
-
2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
-
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
