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Deepfakes - When we can no longer believe our eyes and ears: Media manipulation in conflict. Challenges and responses

Kleemann, Aldo - 2023

Deception and media manipulation have always been an integral part of wartime propaganda. But never before has it been so easy to create high-quality fabrications of images as well as sound and video recordings. The tendency to react emotionally to these media opens up a whole new possibility...

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Information integrity and information pollution: Vulnerabilities and impact on social cohesion and democracy in Mexico

Breuer, Anita - 2024

Equal access to reliable information is essential for democracy and social cohesion. The rise of information pollution, particularly in digital spaces, poses significant challenges to democratic societies worldwide. While extensive research has focused on its impact in developed,...

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The effect of disinformation on democracy: The impact of Hungary's democratic decline

Reisher, Jonathan - In: CES Working Papers 14 (2022) 1, pp. 42-68

accelerate the spread of democracy is dying. For authoritarians, social media enabled disinformation is the weapon of choice … economic inequalities in Hungary, Russia disinformation facilitated Victor Orban's consolidation of power ahead of the April … as the way to confront the issue of social media enabled disinformation. Democracy's most effective weapon against …

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Disinformation optimised: gaming search engine algorithms to amplify junk news

Bradshaw, Samantha - In: Internet Policy Review 8 (2019) 4, pp. 1-24

optimisation (SEO) strategies are used to target audiences with disinformation or political propaganda. This paper looks at 29 junk … spread of disinformation online, Google's algorithmic changes had a significant impact on junk news discoverability. The … of disinformation online. …

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The promise of financial services regulatory theory to address disinformation in content recommender systems

Bennett, Owen - In: Internet Policy Review 10 (2021) 2, pp. 1-26

This article argues that the European regulatory approach to disinformation online is stymied by inappropriate … recommender systems in compounding the policy problem of disinformation online. It assesses the extent to which these alternative …

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