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E-book The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media : A Cross-platform Analysis

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While scholars of hearsay, rumor and conspiracism would point to the history of its staying power (Olmsted, 2009), the spread of misinformation and other problematic information is said to be “supercharged” by contemporary social media (Bounegru et al., 2018; Daniels, 2018). The following examines that thesis through an analysis of the current state of what globally could be called the “misinformation problem” (Allcott et al., 2019) across seven online platforms: TikTok, 4chan, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google Web Search. The part played by YouTube is viewed by way of the videos referenced on 4chan. The case in question is the political information environment in the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections, or what may be dubbed U.S.-based, “political Facebook,” “political Twitter,” “political Instagram,” etc. Borrowing a technique from data journalism, and examining the most interacted-with content around the candidates, political parties and election-related issues, the work reported here found that stricter def initions of misinformation (imposter sites, pseudo-science, conspiracy, extremism only) lessen the scale of the problem, while roomier ones (adding “hyperpartisan” and “junk” sites serving clickbait) increase it, albeit rarely to the point where it outperforms mainstream media.The misinformation problem differs per platform. On such youthful platforms as TikTok and to a lesser extent Instagram, misinformation may be delivered sarcastically or insincerely, making it diff icult to characterize intent (Phillips and Milner, 2017). On the masked or anonymized political boards and communities of 4chan and Reddit, problematic sources are not as copiously referenced as mainstream ones, but that f inding does not mean to suggest the absence of a problem, as the most referenced collection of sources (on 4chan) are extreme YouTube videos, many of which end up being deleted from the platform. The users of mainstream social media as Twitter and Facebook continue to point in great proportions to hyperpar-tisan sources, originally def ined as “openly ideological web operations” (Herrman, 2016). Political spaces on Instagram, however, were found to be the “cleanest,” where most election-related content is non-divisive and earnestly posted, and inf luencers, with some exceptions, were found to be responsible information providers, debunking rather than spreading 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

006.754 ROG t

Penerbit

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

248 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789048554249

Klasifikasi

006.754

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Online Social Network

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