[HTML][HTML] The psychology of fake news

G Pennycook, DG Rand - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …

Deepfakes generation and detection: State-of-the-art, open challenges, countermeasures, and way forward

M Masood, M Nawaz, KM Malik, A Javed, A Irtaza… - Applied …, 2023 - Springer
Easy access to audio-visual content on social media, combined with the availability of
modern tools such as Tensorflow or Keras, and open-source trained models, along with …

Disinformation as political communication

D Freelon, C Wells - Political communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This introduction to the special issue “Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation”
contains four main sections. In the first, we discuss the major sociopolitical factors that have …

Defending against neural fake news

R Zellers, A Holtzman, H Rashkin… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent progress in natural language generation has raised dual-use concerns. While
applications like summarization and translation are positive, the underlying technology also …

Resilience to online disinformation: A framework for cross-national comparative research

E Humprecht, F Esser… - The international journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Online disinformation is considered a major challenge for modern democracies. It is widely
understood as misleading content produced to generate profits, pursue political goals, or …

Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning

G Pennycook, DG Rand - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

The disinformation order: Disruptive communication and the decline of democratic institutions

WL Bennett, S Livingston - European journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Many democratic nations are experiencing increased levels of false information circulating
through social media and political websites that mimic journalism formats. In many cases …

A systematic literature review on disinformation: Toward a unified taxonomical framework

E Kapantai, A Christopoulou, C Berberidis… - New media & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The scale, volume, and distribution speed of disinformation raise concerns in governments,
businesses, and citizens. To respond effectively to this problem, we first need to …

Political astroturfing on twitter: How to coordinate a disinformation campaign

FB Keller, D Schoch, S Stier, JH Yang - Political communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants
pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral …

Disinformation as collaborative work: Surfacing the participatory nature of strategic information operations

K Starbird, A Arif, T Wilson - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we argue that strategic information operations (eg disinformation, political
propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for CSCW …