Volodymyr Zelensky has upped the ante in his fight against pro-Russian...
In February 2021, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky banned three TV channels branded pro-Russian propaganda. Sanctions and criminal charges against politicians and public figures followed. But...
View ArticleCovid-19 disinformation: how smaller untruths can be more infectious than...
Michael Hameleers explains his team's experimental results: that Covid-19 disinformation is most credible – and dangerous – when it stays close to objective facts. This, in turn, has implications for...
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Alexei Navalny and the campaign of disinformation conducted by Russia Today
Disinformation affects democratic systems and lowers the deliberative quality of our society. Analysing press coverage of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Christoph Deppe and Gary S. Schaal reveal...
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Against misinformation as method in political science
Political scientists use experimental methods to study cause-and-effect relationships in politics. Sometimes these approaches involve exposing people to false information about their political...
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War in Ukraine: are negotiations possible?
Faced with the successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, and with military costs mounting, the Russian elite has splintered into bickering factions. Alexandr Burilkov argues that the nationalist...
View ArticleMusk’s Twitter takeover has damaged its popularity, but it may yet survive
Elon Musk’s takeover throws Twitter’s future into question. Drawing on Albert Hirschman’s work on organisational decline, Aleksandra Spalińska explains how a full 'exit' from the platform entails high...
View Article💊 Misinformation, democracy, and the peace journalism solution
Mis and disinformation pose an existential threat to democracy. Steven Youngblood shows how the principles of peace journalism can combat its corrosive effects An existential threat to US democracy......
View Article🔮 Populism is not just something that populists ‘are’ – it can also be...
When facts are disputed and experts delegitimised, Michael Hameleers argues, populist ideas are often strategically communicated to emphasise a divide between congruent truths and incongruent lies....
View Article♟️ Authoritarianism and disinformation: the dangerous link
Where there is authoritarianism, there is disinformation. Nikolina Klatt and Vanessa Boese-Schlosser examine the use of disinformation in authoritarian governance and highlight how autocrats use it to...
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