..., complemented by optional contextual attributes such as intent, timeliness, contextuality, provenance, and ambiguity. Findings The framework demonstrates that many existing terms, including misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, rumours, satire, conspiracy theories, and deepfakes, can be more...

... for their potential to combat disinformation and for pedagogical opportunities, particularly in enhancing critical information literacy (CIL). Design/methodology/approach The study employs a theoretical-conceptual analysis of literature on disinformation within digital media, and on Wikipedia’s role in shaping...

... be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Disinformation Fact-checking Political disinformation Political information Russo-Ukrainian conflict Validity of information The spreading of false information has become a serious concern for the informed citizenry...

... its effects and deep dives into definitional components (disinformation, misinformation, lies and so on). A broader framing of systematically distorted communication allows us to arrive at some conclusions about contemporary fake news: that it is a power strategy with a particular right-wing slant...

... Disinformation This paper analyses the structure of hypertext and the world wide web through the contrasting metaphors of the network and the rhizome and applies this to the problem of fake news. Since its inception hypertext has been framed by network metaphors of various kinds including webs, meshes...

...@abm.uu.se 26 05 2020 14 10 2020 20 10 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Fact-checking Misinformation Disinformation Fake news Media trust Information poverty Information literacy COVID-19 Infodemic...

... practices that make readers susceptible to being mis-/disinformed. The paper culminates in proposing a conceptual model, adapted in the spirit of interdisciplinarity from the field of epidemiology, to account for the determinants of this socio-cultural technology-enabled epidemic of disinformation...

... Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Democracy Misinformation Public sphere Fake news Disinformation 2016 US Presidential election It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...

...Sille Obelitz Søe Purpose With the outset of automatic detection of information, misinformation, and disinformation, the purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss various conceptions of information, misinformation, and disinformation within philosophy of information. Design/methodology...