Fake News and Information Warfare: An Examination of the Political and Psychological Processes From the Digital Sphere to the Real World

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Author(s): Rosanna E. Guadagno (Stanford University, USA)and Karen Guttieri (Air University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 25
Source title: Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Innocent E. Chiluwa (Covenant University, Nigeria)and Sergei A. Samoilenko (George Mason University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch011

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Mass Communications / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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Fake news—false information passed off as factual—is an effective weapon in the information age. For instance, the Russian government perfected techniques used in its 2007 Estonian and 2008 Georgian cyber campaigns to support Donald Trump's successful candidacy in the 2016 United States presidential election. In this chapter, the authors examine fake news and Russia's cyberwarfare efforts across time as case studies of information warfare. The chapter identifies key terms and reviews extant political science and psychological research related to obtaining an understanding of psychological cyber warfare (“psywar”) through the proliferation of fake news. Specifically, the authors suggest that there are social, contextual, and individual factors that contribute to the spread and influence of fake news and review these factors in this chapter.

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