Misinformation and disinformation are closely linked to information literacy, especially in terms of how they are diffused and shared and how people use both cues to credibility and cues to […]
This book blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens […]
Andreas Stokke presents a comprehensive study of lying and insincere language use. He investigates how lying relates to other forms of insincerity and explores the kinds of attitudes that go […]
This paper argues for an account of insincerity in speech according to which an utterance is insincere if and only if it communicates something that does not correspond to the […]
How to build an effective strategy in an era of constant misinformation and mistrust? The multiplication of alternative facts (fake news), the hysterization of debates, the growing influence of digital […]
A word can be true or false. Right or wrong. Truthful or misleading. Realistic or delusional. Delusional has nothing to do with lying. Fabulation is not knowingly deceptive. The pathological […]
Petite histoire de la désinformation exposes, from Antiquity to the present day, desinformation operations and provides us with anecdotes that, from the Trojan horse to the Internet, from the Potemkin […]
We had had to wait for the middle of the 20th century for recognizing that language not only describes the world, but also carries out actions. Even if the idea […]
Over the first decade of the 2000s, climate change denial and global warming skepticism have taken the shape of a well-coordinated campaign with funding from industry and free-market think tanks. […]
