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Fake news or disinformation spreads widely among various communities worldwide due to the advancement in technology involving social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in our daily lives. Disinformation news is designed to ...

This article presents a methodological framework for analyzing disinformation narratives, emphasizing the significance of localized contextualization, particularly the influence of cultural and historical factors embedded within these narratives. ...

Freedom of speech is a crucial right. While the digital realm has allowed for greater expansion of free expression, it has also facilitated anonymous sharing of content. The veracity of news is increasingly threatened by the difficulty of tracking ...

The desire to “debunk” false information is a shared goal among government, social media platforms, and society. How can organizations determine whether a debunking technique is effective? Noting that simply debunking misinformation may not affect its ...

Public texts aiming at reader manipulation for propaganda or disinformation purposes pose a significant threat to society. The ability to detect the presence of a specific manipulative technique in a text offers an informed warning to readers and ...

• New publicly available Propaganda dataset of 8,646 Czech newspaper articles.
• Human-annotated for 18 manipulative techniques used in propaganda and disinformation.
• Evaluation of the Propaganda dataset with state-of-the-art ...

One of the negative aspects of the world becoming more digitized has been fake news, i.e., online disinformation – false, often fabricated reports of events, written and read on websites. The term has already entered collective consciousness and ...

Based on the prevalence and complexity of disinformation propagation on current social networks, this research aims to explore the propagation principles of cross-platform disinformation and construct a corresponding propagation model. First, we ...

The widespread use of digital platforms, prioritising content based on engagement metrics and rewarding content creators accordingly, has contributed to the proliferation of disinformation and its far-reaching social and political impact. In addition, ...

The evolving landscape of global security has shifted away from the traditional dynamics of superpower confrontation towards a more complex interaction involving both state and non-state actors. The information revolution driven by technologies and the ...

In the summer of 2023, the Writers Guild of America embarked on what would become one of its longest strikes in history. Concurrently, the early stirrings of the presidential campaign saw several ads circulating with convincingly altered video and audio ...

Audio deepfakes are becoming increasingly prevalent, posing a threat to companies who may fall victim to CEO fraud, as well as individuals who may be targeted by voice scams. As a result, the need for audio deepfake detectors is growing. While academic ...

With the advancement of artificial intelligence, the methods for generating audio deepfakes have improved, but the technology behind it has become more complex. Despite this, non-expert users are able to generate audio deepfakes due to the increased ...

With increasingly easier access to large, pre-trained text-to-image models, a surge of synthetic images, often visually indistinguishable from natural images, can be observed. Since naturalistic, synthetic images can be misidentified as natural, a ...

A blind semi-fragile watermarking scheme for disinformation detection in online social media (OSM) is presented. The proposed scheme can be used for both images and videos. We also propose a blockchain-based framework for traceability and propagation ...

In today’s information-rich world, researchers often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data available. This can make it challenging for them to locate relevant publications that align with their research interests. To address this issue,...

Detecting fake information is a complex and multi-faceted challenge concerning data gathering, processing, analysis and detection, as well as countering fake content distribution. On the one hand, fake content is created intentionally and ...

The proliferation of social networks has presented a significant challenge in combating the pervasive issue of fake news within modern societies. Due to the large amount of information and news produced daily in text, audio, and video, the ...

• Provides an up-to-date taxonomy for textual-based fake news detection perspective.
• Presents an empirical comparison between several feature extraction techniques and classification algorithms.
• Provides an error analysis to analyze ...

• Political hate speech is a threat to societal stability.
• Centralized online content regulation increases political hate speech.
• Centralization in online content regulation increases surveillance and disinformation, increasing ...

This study primarily examines how the centralization of online content regulation increases political hate speech in a country. It also explores the roles of the government's social media surveillance and disinformation in this relationship. ...

Disinformation researchers have much to learn about the psychological factors that lead to users’ biases. The gap in users’ new media literacy, along with personality traits, are factors that may contribute to bias. We conducted an experiment ...

Media bias and the intolerance of media outlets and citizens to deal with opposing points of view pose a threat to the proper functioning of democratic processes. In this respect, we present a systematic review of the literature related to media ...

• 17 forms of media bias exists. It can be classified according to context or intention.
• A theoretical framework allows us to differentiate different misinformation problems.
• Transformers have outperformed RNNs when it comes to ...