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1. Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature

   Joshua A. Tucker, Andrew M. Guess, Pablo Barberá, et al. · 2018 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 1,229 cites

2. Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

   Peter Van Aelst, Jesper Strömbäck, Toril Aalberg, et al. · 2017 · Annals of the International Communication Association · 972 cites

   During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media

3. Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security

   Robert Chesney, Danielle Keats Citron · 2018 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 841 cites

4. Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review

   Esma Aı̈meur, Sabrine Amri, Gilles Brassard · 2023 · Social Network Analysis and Mining · 757 cites

5. Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election

   Emilio Ferrara · 2017 · First Monday · 491 cites

   Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous conclusion: social media are systematically exploited to manipulate and alter public opinion. Some disinformation campaigns have been coordinated by means of bots, social media accounts controlled by computer scripts that try to disguise themselves as legitimate human users. In this study, we describe one such operation that occurred in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election. We collected a massive Twitter dataset of nearly 17 million posts, posted between 27 April and 7 May 2017 (Election Day). We then set to study the MacronLeaks disinformation campaign: By leveraging a mix of

6. Disinformation as Collaborative Work

   Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, Tom Wilson · 2019 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 368 cites

   In this paper, we argue that strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for CSCW researchers, and that the CSCW community can provide vital insight into understanding how these operations function-by examining them as collaborative "work" within online crowds. First, we provide needed definitions and a framework for conceptualizing strategic information operations, highlighting related literatures and noting historical context. Next, we examine three case studies of online information operations using a sociotechnical lens that draws on CSCW theories and methods to account for the mutual shaping

7. A multi-dimensional approach to disinformation : Report of the independent High level Group on fake news and online disinformation

   Marius Buning · 2018 · Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute) · 304 cites

   In January 2018, the European Commission set up a highlevel group of experts («the HLEG») to advise on policy initiatives to counter fake news and disinformation spread online. The HLEG consisted of 39 members and was chaired by Prof. Dr. Madeleine de Cock Buning. Its members had different backgrounds, including academia and journalism, written press and broadcasting organizations, online platforms as well as civil society and fact-checking organizations. The HLEG’s tasks were to advise the Commission on all issues arising in the context of false information spread across traditional and social media and on possible ways to cope with its social and political consequences. The main deliverabl

8. The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation

   Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard · 2019 · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · 303 cites

   Executive Summary Over the past three years, we have monitored the global organization of social media manipulation by governments and political parties. Our 2019 report analyses the trends of computational propaganda and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources. 1. Evidence of organized social media manipulation campaigns which have taken place in 70 countries, up from 48 countries in 2018 and 28 countries in 2017. In each country, there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to shape public attitudes domestically. 2.Social media has become co-opted by many authoritarian regimes. In 26 countries, computational propaganda is being used as a t