The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media : : A Cross-platform Analysis / / ed. by Richard Rogers.

• MitwirkendeR: Albrecht, Carina,; Benedetti, Andrea,; Beuls, Katrien,; Cappuccio, Eleonora,; Colombo, Gabriele,; Dickey, Briar,; Geboers, Marloes Annette,; Burton, Anthony Glyn,; Groen, Maarten,; Keulenaar, Emillie de,; Kisjes, Ivan,; Niederer, Sabine,; Peeters, Stijn, 1957-; Rogers, Richard,; Smith, Rory,; Sánchez-Querubín, Natalia,; Torres Guillén, Jaime,; Tuters, Marc,; Van Eecke, Paul,; Van Soest, Jeroen,; Wang, Shuaishuai,; Willaert, Tom,
• HerausgeberIn: Rogers, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. T...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 “Serious queries” and “editorial epistemologies”. How social media are contending with misinformation
• 2 Problematic information in Google Web Search? Scrutinizing the results from U.S. election-related queries
• 3 The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how “fake news” is classified
• 4 When misinformation migrates. Cross-platform posting, YouTube and the deep vernacular web
• 5 Fringe players on political Twitter. Source-sharing dynamics, partisanship and problematic actors
• 6 Twitter as accidental authority. How a platform assumed an adjudicative role during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 7 The earnest platform . U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19, and social issues on Instagram
• 8 A fringe mainstreamed, or tracing antagonistic slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump
• 9 Political TikTok . Playful performance, ambivalent critique and event-commentary
• Afterword: The misinformation problem and the deplatforming debates
• Bibliography
• Index