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Fake news is not new, and this issue poses an even greater
challenge now. The speed of information has increased drastically
with messages now spreading internationally within seconds online.
With countless photographs, opinions, and hours of video published
online every falsehoods proliferate rapidly. Readers are
overwhelmed by the flood of information, but older markers of
veracity (respected publications, official sources) have not kept
up, nor has there been a commensurate growth in the ability to
counter false or fake news. In many cases, staid publications of
record such as newspapers have been eclipsed by new, visually
attractive, and sometimes false, sources of information. All this
has given an opportunity to those seeking to destabilize a state or
to push their perspectives to the fore. Modern disinformation
operations only need free Twitter or Facebook accounts or access to
platforms such as WhatsApp or Telegram.DRUMS: Distortions, Rumours,
Untruths, Misinformation and Smears deals with the appeal of DRUMS,
the ways DRUMS is employed, and measures to counter it. Organized
in three sections - (i) Cognitive Predispositions and DRUMS, (ii)
The Employment of DRUMS, and (iii) Countering DRUMS - this book
offers a holistic discussion through the different specializations
and different experiences of its academic, think-tanker, or policy
practitioner contributors. DRUMS: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths,
Misinformation and Smears aims to serve those new the topic or
subject matter specialists seeking to widen their knowledge on
other elements of the issue.
This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from
around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news
has had in both the online and social sphere. While much has been
said about individual disinformation campaigns in specific
countries, this book offers a panoramic view of how these campaigns
are conducted, who they target, and how they are spread. By
bringing together research on specific countries and international
data mined from questionnaires and online studies, the
understanding of the term 'fake news' is greatly expanded and the
issues we face are brought to light. The book includes
contributions by experts such as Jean-Baptiste Vilmer (Macron
Leaks), and includes case studies from Asia, such as Singapore and
Myanmar, written in an accessible manner for the general interested
reader, practitioners and policymakers in the field.
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