Cloaked Facebook pages: Exploring fake Islamist propaganda in social media

J Farkas, J Schou, C Neumayer - New Media & Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
New Media & Society, 2018journals.sagepub.com
This research analyses cloaked Facebook pages that are created to spread political
propaganda by cloaking a user profile and imitating the identity of a political opponent in
order to spark hateful and aggressive reactions. This inquiry is pursued through a multi-sited
online ethnographic case study of Danish Facebook pages disguised as radical Islamist
pages, which provoked racist and anti-Muslim reactions as well as negative sentiments
towards refugees and immigrants in Denmark in general. Drawing on Jessie Daniels' critical …
This research analyses cloaked Facebook pages that are created to spread political propaganda by cloaking a user profile and imitating the identity of a political opponent in order to spark hateful and aggressive reactions. This inquiry is pursued through a multi-sited online ethnographic case study of Danish Facebook pages disguised as radical Islamist pages, which provoked racist and anti-Muslim reactions as well as negative sentiments towards refugees and immigrants in Denmark in general. Drawing on Jessie Daniels’ critical insights into cloaked websites, this research furthermore analyses the epistemological, methodological and conceptual challenges of online propaganda. It enhances our understanding of disinformation and propaganda in an increasingly interactive social media environment and contributes to a critical inquiry into social media and subversive politics.
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