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Research Anthology on Fake News, Political Warfare, and Combatting the Spread of Misinformation

English · Hardback

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With recent headlines around fake news from world leaders and around presidential elections, Twitter and other social media platforms being pressured to detect and label misinformation posted on their platforms, as well as misinformation around COVID-19 and its vaccine, the world has seen an increase in protests, policy changes, and even chaos surrounding this information. This spread of misinformation, when left unchecked, can turn fiction into fact and result in a mass misconception of the truth that shapes opinions, creates false narratives, and impacts multiple facets of society in potentially detrimental ways, indicating a need for the latest research on how the devastating impacts of this trend, how to discern facts from misinformation, as well as more information on technological advancements in fake news detection The Research Anthology on Fake News, Political Warfare, and Combatting the Spread of Misinformation is a compilation of the most comprehensive, previously published, and highly cited research from prestigious institutions including Columbia University and Stanford University, USA, which focuses on understanding fake news, how it spreads, its negative effects, and current solutions being investigated. While highlighting topics such as fake news, trending conspiracy theories, media distrust, political warfare, and detection methods, this book is ideally intended for practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the continuing surge of fake news and its, at times, dangerous results.

Summary

Presents research that provides readers with an advanced understanding of fake news, how it spreads, its negative effects, and the current solutions being investigated. Chapters also contain a focus on the use of alternative facts for pushing political agendas and as a way of conducting political warfare.

Product details

Assisted by Information Resources Management Association (Editor), Information Reso Management Association (Editor)
Publisher Information Science Reference
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2020
 
EAN 9781799872917
ISBN 978-1-79987-291-7
No. of pages 676
Dimensions 221 mm x 286 mm x 40 mm
Weight 1932 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries

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