Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants
pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral …

1. Steve Annear,“Mark Zuckerberg Couldn't Stop Mentioning Harvard Dorm During
Facebook Testimony,” Boston Globe, April 11, 2018, https://www. bostonglobe …

How disinformation campaigns operate and how they fit into the broader social
communication environment–which has been described as a 'disinformation order'[Bennett …

This commentary on the 2018 special issue of the Journal of American Folklore,“Fake News:
Definitions and Approaches,” argues that digital networks have enabled fake news by …

Many journalists and newsrooms now incorporate audience contributions in their sourcing
practices by leveraging user-generated content (UGC). However, their sourcing needs and …

Social media have led to profound transformations in the media ecosystem and new
communication dynamics. Such platforms have become a competitive source of information …

We build on recent work on information design to explore the role of censorship,
propaganda, and repression in autocratic rule. A government chooses a propaganda …

This chapter focuses on the global diffusion of the Russian computational propaganda
model in order to highlight broader changes in the use of social media in attempts to …

Durch die Digitalisierung unterliegt die politische Kommunikation einem fundamentalen
Wandel. Bürger 1 in etablierten Demokratien und darüber hinaus greifen zunehmend über …

The aim of the present study is to examine the regularity of language used by Imran Khan
and Maryam Nawaz in their tweets. The main objectives of this research are to find out the …