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Telegram has become a preferred platform for far-right activism, conspiracy theories, political propaganda, and misinformation, each with its own target audience. This study investigates the application of multilanguage machine learning techniques ...

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by a large-scale, pro-Russian propaganda campaign on social media. However, the strategy behind the dissemination of propaganda has remained unclear, particularly how the online discourse was ...

The structure and mechanics of organized outreach around certain issues, such as in propaganda networks, is constantly evolving on social media. We collect tweets on two propaganda events and one non-propaganda event with varying degrees of organized ...

The possibility of an altered photo revising history in a convincing way highlights a salient threat of imaging technology. Afterall, seeing is believing. Or is it? The examples history has preserved make it clear that the observer is more often than not ...

Influence campaigns pose a threat to fact-based reasoning, erode trust in institutions, and tear at the fabric of our society. In the 21st century, influence campaigns have rapidly evolved, taking on new online identities. Many of these propaganda ...

White supremacist extremist groups are a significant domestic terror threat in many Western nations. These groups harness the Internet to spread their ideology via online platforms: blogs, chat rooms, forums, and social media, which can inspire violence ...

Online social media represent an oftentimes unique source of information, and having access to reliable and unbiased content is crucial, especially during crises and contentious events. We study the spread of propaganda and misinformation that ...

Society has been significantly impacted by social media platforms in almost every aspect of their life. This impact has been effectively formulating people’s global mindsets and opinions on political, economic, and social events. Such waves of opinion ...

The misuse of social media platforms to influence public opinion through propaganda campaigns are a cause of rising concern globally. Particularly, countries like India, where politicians communicate with the public through unmediated, curated twitter ...

Social media have democratized content creation and have made it easy for anybody to spread information online. However, stripping traditional media from their gate-keeping role has left the public unprotected against biased, deceptive and ...

The rise of Internet and social media changed not only how we consume information, but it also democratized the process of content creation and dissemination, thus making it easily available to anybody. Despite the hugely positive impact, this situation ...

The rise of social media has democratized content creation and has made it easy for anybody to share and to spread information online. On the positive side, this has given rise to citizen journalism, thus enabling much faster dissemination of ...

The role of social media in promoting media pluralism was initially viewed as wholly positive as social media could break the oligopoly of (often state-owned) mainstream media. However, some governments are allegedly manipulating social media by hiring ...

For many, social networks have become the primary source of news, although the correctness of the provided information and its trustworthiness are often unclear. The investigations of the 2016 US presidential elections have brought the existence of ...

Upsurge of the social media and the ubiquity of fake news have been the common phenomena, which negatively affects the spirit and ethics of journalism profession. The policies of the social media giants are inadequate to challenge this menace. Also, the ...

Hate groups increasingly use social media to promote extremist ideologies. They frame their online communications to appeal to potential recruits. Informed by sociological theories of framing, we develop the "Hate Frames Codebook", a hand-coding scheme ...

Twitter has identified 2,752 accounts that it believes are linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian company that creates online propaganda. These accounts are known to have tweeted about the US 2016 Elections and the list was submitted as ...

Islamic State (IS) terrorist networks in Syria and Iraq pose threats to national security. IS' exploitation of social media and digital strategy plays a key role in its global dissemination of propaganda, radicalization, and recruitment. However, ...

This is a study (comprising a mild formalisation) of a narrative about human-like communication by a parrot, its political context, and punishment meted to this bird. In law, when causality is taken to have been concomitant with volition, the actus ...

The author advises innovators who want others to accept their work to study propaganda, especially as the military, political parties, and even corporations use it. He argues that, while we have come to associate propaganda with nefarious mind-control ...