Current debate is dominated by fears of the threats of digital technology for democracy. One
typical example is the perceived threats of malicious actors promoting disinformation …

The 2020 US election was accompanied by an effort to spread a false meta-narrative of
widespread voter fraud. This meta-narrative took hold among a substantial portion of the US …

Many states have become concerned with Russian cyberattacks and online propaganda.
The Ukrainian government responded to the information threat in 2017 by blocking access …

Propaganda has been increasingly digitized, popularized, and aestheticized globally. This
article focuses on the restyling of propaganda in China, particularly the role of Chinese state …

This paper provides an overview of current responses to fake news and digital
disinformation inside and outside the EU, and assesses the advantages and disadvantages …

“Denial, a psychological defense mechanism, is an unconscious mental maneuver that
cancels out or obscures painful reality.... We do not need to confront or change things that do …

The participatory affordances of digital media allow a broad spectrum of new forms of
participation in conflicts that go beyond the information domain (Boichak in Battlefront …

Purpose This study aims to identify how Brazilian followers of an X/Twitter profile engage in
theory-building processes leading up to the January 8, 2023 riots in Brasília, the Brazilian …

This article describes how the Chinese state borrows from the culture of celebrity fandom to
implement a novel strategy of governing that we term “fandom governance.” We illustrate …

Drawing on a critical review of the existing literature on computational propaganda and
disinformation, and employing a three-stage process—addressing the “New Wine in Old …