Internet subcultures take advantage of the current media ecosystem to manipulate news frames, set agendas, and propagate ideas. The media’s dependence on social media, analytics and metrics, sensationalism, novelty over newsworthiness, and clickbait makes them vulnerable to such media manipulation. Media manipulation may contribute to decreased trust of mainstream media, increased misinformation, and further radicalization.
Alice Marwick, UNC Chapel Hill
In light of the foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, the present research asks the question of whether the digital media has become the stealth media for anonymous political campaigns.
University of Wisconsin Elections Research Center
The widespread dissemination of misinformation in social media has recently received a lot of attention in academia. While the problem of misinformation in social media has been intensively studied, there are seemingly different definitions for the same problem, and inconsistent results in different studies.
Arizona State University, University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University
We developed five short videos that inoculate people against manipulation techniques commonly used in misinformation: emotionally manipulative language, incoherence, false dichotomies, scapegoating, and ad hominem attacks.
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