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Anti-Western propaganda

Tamar Kintsurashvili

Media Development Foundation (MDF); UN Association of Georgia; USAID (2018), 38 pp., 16 figures

ISBN 978-9941-8-0064-1

"As many as 1,967 anti-Western comments were detected in the 17 monitored media outlets in 2017. In contrast to 2016 and 2015, when negative messages targeted human identity and rights, in 2017, a dominant topic was the foreign policy with the messages aimed at increasing the polarization on the for... more

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Defining “fake news”: a typology of scholarly definitions

Edson C. Tandoc Jr.; Zheng Wei Lim; Richard Ling

Digital journalism, volume , issue 6 (2018), pp. 137-153

"This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake news” between 2003 and 2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, man... more

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Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford (2018), 25 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"Our key findings are: 1. We have found evidence of formally organized social media manipulation campaigns in 48 countries, up from 28 countries last year. In each country there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to manipulate public opinion domestically; 2. Much... more

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Guía para combatir el discurso de odio

Madrid: Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) (2017), 19 pp., bibliogr. p.18

"Esta guía elaborada por la Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) tiene como objetivo principal ofrecer orientaciones a las organizaciones que trabajan por la igualdad de trato y la no discriminación, a agentes clave y a la ciudadanía, sobre qué es el discurso de odio y cómo combatirlo más efic... more

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We can! Taking action against hate speech through counter and alternative narratives

Agata de Latour; Nina Perger; Ron Salaj; Claudio Tocchi; Paloma Viejo Otero

Cork: Primento Digital Publishing (2017) revised ed., 156 pp., bibliogr. p.167-169, glossary p.170-172

ISBN 978-92-871-8543-3 (ebook); 978-92-871-8445-0 (print)

Other Editions: also published in French

"WE CAN! is the latest addition to our toolbox against hate. The most damaging examples of hate speech are often grounded in simple stories, which are repeated over and over again in different forms. The migrants “taking our jobs” narrative, for example. Or the consistent claim, made by radicals... more

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Fake news: the narrative battle over the Ukrainian conflict

irina Khaldarova; Mervi Pantti

Journalism practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 891-901

"The crisis in Ukraine has accentuated the position of Russian television as the government’s strongest asset in its information warfare. The internet, however, allows other players to challenge the Kremlin’s narrative by providing counter-narratives and debunking distorted information and fake ... more

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Countering Russian propaganda

per concordiam: Journal of European security and defense issues, volume , issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.

"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th... more

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