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Tag: Propaganda

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

An investigation by the AP and the Oxford Internet Institute examines the propaganda spread by the Chinese Communist Party on Twitter.

David Sputnik vs. Goliath Pfizer

Also by DisinfoLab, this study analyzes the articles published by Russian government media outlets RT and Sputnik regarding Covid-19 vaccination currently circulating in francophone spaces on Twitter.

Weaponized: How rumors about COVID-19’s origins led to a narrative arms race

Within the scope of a joint project by the DFRLab and the Associated Press, this report examines the way in which four countries – China, the United States, Russia, and Iran – mutually accused one another of causing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Phil Howard and Emily Bell: Disinformation in 2020, from "Plandemic" to Bill Gates to "Obamagate"

Phil Howard, the Oxford Internet Institute director and author of Lie Machines, and Emily Bell, the director of Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher […]

Losing Pravda. Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia.

What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media analysis, and moral and political theory, this book examines the unravelling of professional journalism in Russia during the1990s and 2000s […]

Improvised news : a sociological study of rumors

Shibutani seeks to develop a model for the phenomenon of rumors, through the analysis of its appearances during critical events (disasters, historical turning points). He believes this method to be […]

Public opinion

The 1922 book Public Opinion is Lippman's assessment of functional democratic government and the role of citizens in a democracy ; it examines the dilemmas presented in such a revolutionary […]

Propaganda, communication and public opinion

Three major trends have shaped the character and ordered the development of American communication channels. The first has been the rise of democracy. The second is the technological and industrial […]

RUSSIA AS A HURRICANE, CHINA AS CLIMATE CHANGE: DIFFERENT WAYS OF INFORMATION WARFARE

Disinformation studies have been engaged in a pivot to Asia. A growing number of scholars and governmental experts around the globe who were once fixated on Russian operations are now […]

Defining "Fake news", A typology of scholarly definitions

This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake […]

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