Information disorder

DDMAC Project discusses digital authoritarianism at EACA2024

“Navigating Digital Authoritarianism: Communication Responses in African Contexts” was the theme of the panel convened by the DDMAC project team on 28 September 2024 as part of the 14th edition of the East African Communication Association (EACA) conference. The conference took place in Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania from 28 to 30…

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Samba Dialimpa Badji participates in a panel on disinformation

On Monday March 27th from 15:00-16:30, Samba Dialimpa Badji participates in a panel on the consequences of fake news and disinformation in relation to democracy during an international panel organized by the Sahel Institute of Democracy and Governance in partnership with Global Democracy Coalition. Subscribe

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Factforward: reflections on a future of disinformation

Stories on artificial intelligence, such as deepfakes, Google voice generators, and the impact of conversation chatbots like ChatGPT, seem to occupy disinformation researchers at the time. Seeing-is-believing does no longer uphold and neither can people always trust their ears. The AI tools are powerful for producing deliberately misleading information, as…

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Samba Dialimpa Badji writes blog for Africa Check

PhD candidate Samba published a

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DDMAC team publishes article on the future of disinformation studies

On May 25th 2022, a pre-conference at Sciences Po in Paris was held, where scholars came to discuss the question: “What comes after disinformation studies?” As a result a special

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Mirjam de Bruijn works on ‘Tchadoblog’

This blog was originally published on The workshop also introduced new methods for structuring research and producing non-polarizing stories. Learning by doing was the pedagogical principle during the five days. Participants talked a lot with each other and went "out on the street" twice to do reporting and research. For…

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Daniel Thilo Schroeder gives a talk at the summer academy “The Geopolitics of Disinformation”

From the 29th of August until the 1st of September the summer academcy The Geopolitics of Disinformation took place in Bonn. During the summer academy researchers reflected on disinformation, propaganda, and fake news in the light of new technologies. The aim of the conference was to theorize and analyze the…

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Memetic Warfare on Twitter

Besides URLs and short text snippets, which contain news events, opinions and references to others, Twitter is full of visual content. Twitter-users in Mali decorate their profiles with photos, videos, infographics, documents, and memes to communicate their perspectives on pressing issues. A key aspect of the visual imagery is its…

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