News and Research articles on DisinformationTo develop a response to what the new digital knowledge order means for science and scholarship, we need research and policy that focuses on the multiple ways platform power shapes academic knowledge production and communication.
Platforms’ lack of compliance with the Code of Practice on Disinformation shows that they are not doing enough to counter mis- and disinformation.
This article provides a database of government responses to online disinformation and compares the amount and type of response over time and against the level of democratisation, press freedom, and gross domestic product.
This article delves into the diverse and complex nature of conceptualising misinformation as an object of research.
This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the potential of new institutions for disinformation governance.
This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses conceptual challenges for disinformation governance.
This opinion piece is part of a 3-part miniseries advancing key reflections in disinformation governance. This article discusses the role of empirical evidence.
This article discusses national legislation applicable to disinformation, and the implications for EU policy and fundamental rights.
This article seeks to establish a more desirable paradigm for addressing disinformation online, by leveraging the theories of financial services regulation.
In this paper we examine what data literacy means in the age of dis-/mis-/mal-information. We examine theoretical and methodological challenges researchers face when examining these two fields and how we can move forward by sharing our own experience in designing a survey to understand UK citizens data literacies.
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the most urgent situation in relation to both disinformation and misinformation since the establishment of European Union’s 2018 codes of practice on disinformation. Pressure to change the regulatory framework is growing.
Is the “European approach” an adequate response to the challenges of disinformation and political manipulation, especially in election periods?
This paper examines how Google Search ranked 29 junk news domains between 2016 and 2019, finding that SEO — rather than paid advertising — is the most important strategy for generating discoverability via Google Search. Google has taken several steps to combat the spread of disinformation on Search, and these strategies have been largely successful at limiting the discoverability of junk news.