To understand processes leading to misperceptions and knowledge resistance requires
understanding the supply of disinformation, misinformation, and fake news. The reason is …

There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new
digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few …

Previous research dedicated a lot of effort to investigation of the activities of the Internet
Research Agency, a Russia-based troll factory, as well as other information operations …

January 6, 2021 was supposed to be a celebration of the peaceful transition of power in the
US. Instead, it turned out to be a day that will be inscribed in the history books. Incited by a …

Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have become major objects of
criticism for reasons such as privacy violations, anticompetitive practices, and interference in …

While scholars of activism have begun to unfold the dynamics of the 'contentious politics of
data', less explored are the forms of appropriation of algorithms to pursue political objectives …

Algorithmic intermediaries govern the digital public sphere through their architectures,
amplification algorithms, and moderation practices. In doing so, they shape public …

Our information and communication environment has fallen short of the ideals that
networked global communication might have served. Identifying all the causes of its …

The growth of online platforms is accompanied by the increasing use of automated agents.
Despite being discussed primarily in the context of opinion manipulation, agents play …

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can handle increasingly complex tasks, albeit they require
rapidly expanding training datasets. Collecting data from platforms with user-generated …