Paper highligths – Disinformation session

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

Technology-fuelled disinformation has a toxic societal impact on democratic political culture, providing severe polarisation which damages all institutions essential to democracy
Every year the IFDAD’s Program Committee chooses the most interesting papers on the proposed topics to be presented at the conference.

• Petros Panagiotopoulos. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Public Space & Social Media: New possibilities of politicization, “echo chambers” or fora of neo-populism?
• Max Lesser, Hallie J. Stern and Sara-Jayne Terp. DISARM Foundation, USA. Countering Russian Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation and Influence Campaigns in Italy Surrounding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine