fake news
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Brain power
The infestation of bots and conspiracy theorists on social media pre-election
Research shows the situation hasn't improved since the 2016 US election, despite attempts by social networks to clamp down on…
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Brain power
Fake news can boost trust in government
Misinformation has a diverse impact on trust in society, with benefits for the government, at the expense of trust in…
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Are you an unwitting mercenary in the dirty Facebook disinformation wars?
There's clear evidence of global disinformation warfare, and the uncomfortable truth is that those who share this disinformation are holding…
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2019’s top 100 journal articles
How much fake news is really shared on Facebook, and who shares it? [Top 100 journal articles of 2019]
The findings of a study of fake news sharing on Facebook have implications for knowledge sharing in organisations, and for…
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Brain power
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How misinformation can be tough to shift
People sometimes continue to use misinformation in their reasoning, even if they remember that the information is false, which researchers…
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2019’s top 100 journal articles
AI can create realistic deepfake videos from as little as one photo, or even artwork [Top 100 journal articles of 2019]
Deepfake videos are a very effective tool for carrying out a number of the dark side knowledge management (KM) tactics.
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Merchants of misinformation are all over the internet. But the real problem lies with us
Social media giants such as Facebook have been blamed for helping spread misinformation. But the problem runs deeper than that.
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A reading list and primer on digital disinformation
An annotated bibliography of research done in the last few years on digital disinformation.
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Case studies in complexity
Case studies in complexity (part 4): Mothers Opposing Pollution (MOP)
An example of an "unknown unknown" – something we don't know that we don't know. But there are unknown unknowns…
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Brain power
The urgent need for media literacy in an age of annihilation
Everyone needs to learn to ask questions about what stories are told, and the implications of what stories are not…
