This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in
history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United …

Who are mis-/disinformation studies for? What agenda does the field serve? How can it be
improved? While the increase in the attention towards the topic in the last years is healthy, it …

This study unpacks the emerging framework of detection, verification, and correction of
falsehoods developed by fact-checkers outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and …

The circulation of false and/or misleading information is a significant and growing threat to
modern democracies. The contemporary rise of disinformation online and offline–linked with …

This article examines a recent regulation in India called the “Information Technology
(Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021.” The Rules allow for …

This study investigates gray areas of contemporary political campaigning from a political
economy perspective. Using qualitative field and digital methods, computational methods …

Why does misinformation persist despite its corrections? To address this issue, we propose
the 'news as entertainment'framework, explaining how commercial considerations of the …

The rise of fake news and other types of disinformation has sparked academic interest in
examining the reasons some individuals fall for online falsehoods and with what …

The global reach of misinformation has exacerbated harms in low-and middle-income
countries faced with deficiencies in funding, platform engagement, and media literacy …

This paper presents a few observations about pro-Kremlin propaganda between 2015 and
early 2021 with a dataset from the East Stratcom Task Force (ESTF), which is affiliated with …