1 #dominant Voices in the New Disinformation Order
Information Disorder and Disinformation
In order to describe the state of the art of information disorder, recurring concepts in the literature refer to disinformation, post-truth and fake news. As it is well known, the term post-truth
—word of the year in 2016 according to the Oxford Dictionary—describes circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotions and personal beliefs
(Del Vicario et al., 2018). The term can be linked to the concept of fake news insofar as post-truths are based on objectively false news; in reality, post-truths could refer to only partially fake news that is combined ...
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