Scholars in different scientific fields and practitioners are analyzing the rise of production
and diffusion of fake news and problematic information that is rapidly contaminating the …

Current literature on fake news is rather abundant and mainly focused on history, variety,
and types, rather than processes. This review draws on current literature to build a working …

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 …

Introducción: Los productores de desinformación y noticias falsas encuentran en el temor, la
incertidumbre en tiempos de pandemia y las redes sociales virtuales facilitadores para su …

Over the last few years, a proliferation of attempts to define, understand and fight the spread
of problematic information in contemporary media ecosystems emerged. Most of these …

We introduce a special issue that collects eight articles, comprising research from twenty-
three countries and four continents on the sources, impact on citizens, and possible …

Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades,
scholarship has offered new theories, revisited some old ones, and provided empirical …

Background Online false or misleading oral health–related content has been propagated on
social media to deceive people against fluoride's economic and health benefits to prevent …

Purpose The extensive distribution of fake news on the internet (FNI) has significantly
affected many lives. Although numerous studies have recently been conducted on this topic …

After the 2016 US presidential elections, the term 'fake news' became synonymous with
disinformation and a catch-all term for the problems that social networks were bringing to …