Democracy is built on the underlying public trust in its institutions and media. This trust is potentially undermined and damaged by targeted disinformation campaigns. Especially online and social media have made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented ...
"The U.S. has hired an army of cyber troops to disseminate fake news and biased information about these countries, including Iran, on social networks," Khalaji said. "Flooding social media with toxic information is an inseparable part of Washington's dirty play to shape public attitudes and v...
A story on a (faked) news site falsely reported that a major social media company had received a $31 billion takeover bid. The hoax, created via a fake domain registered to a proxy service in a foreign country, drove a spike in the company’s shares. A semiconductor giant’s planned m...
Misinformation can occur when individuals or organizations unwittingly get the facts wrong. Misinformation often surfaces when a breaking news story is unfolding and details have not yet been confirmed. Another instance of misinformation is when people share false information as a fact without thoroughly ...
US security agencies singled out two examples of disinformation. One was a video of an interview with a fake "whistleblower" claiming the election in Arizona was being rigged through fake overseas ballots and changing voter rolls to favour Kamala Harris. ...
In recent years, the term has become especially associated with the spread of "fake news" on social media as a strategy of negative political campaigning. Key Takeaways: Disinformation The terms disinformation and misinformation are often used interchangeably, but they are not synonymous. Disinformatio...
Historical examples of disinformation are many, as illustrated by the following three ancient examples of “fake news”: the donation of Constantine from the eighth century, a sanctioned surrender of the Hospitaliers of the Knights Templar in the 1140s and the story from 1782 when Benjamin Frankli...
An example of a disinformation campaign is malicious actors attempting to manipulate public opinion at critical times through social media influence operations or fake news sites. For example, malicious actors could launch a disinformation campaign with the goal of influencing the outcomes of an election...
+ 1 score suggests that it is perfectly appropriate. Table4shows the examples of the relevancy score of the news category against supply chain disruption keywords present in our database. Table 4 Example of supply chain disruption features...
Second, we found that the disinformation network density tended to be higher during periods with increased post and hashtag volumes, suggesting that the network becomes denser when it resonates or orchestrates a communication campaign. Some examples of this behavior are shown in Fig.8, where the ...