TY - GEN
T1 - Misinformation Battle Revisited
T2 - 29th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020
AU - Fard, Amir Ebrahimi
AU - Lingeswaran, Shajeeshan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The spread of misinformation is one of the severe challenges that societies have been dealing with for many years. However, the rapid growth of social media has accelerated the creation and circulation of such information and turned it into a potential threat to the main societal institutions such as peace and democracy. Although many of iconic figures, policymakers, business leaders and researchers have warned us of serious repercussions of misinformation, a clear course of action is not yet visible. To tackle such an issue, the preliminary step would be the evaluation of the as-is situation, which allows us to identify the deficiencies of existing solutions. This issue has been addressed in this study by a comprehensive analysis over decades of societal efforts against misinformation. In this analysis, quelling strategies from organisational and government perspectives are explained. Then they are investigated from efficacy level and governance mode. Our analyses show that, despite a seemingly suitable setting for confronting misinformation, there is a major shortcoming in governance mode of current quelling strategies.
AB - The spread of misinformation is one of the severe challenges that societies have been dealing with for many years. However, the rapid growth of social media has accelerated the creation and circulation of such information and turned it into a potential threat to the main societal institutions such as peace and democracy. Although many of iconic figures, policymakers, business leaders and researchers have warned us of serious repercussions of misinformation, a clear course of action is not yet visible. To tackle such an issue, the preliminary step would be the evaluation of the as-is situation, which allows us to identify the deficiencies of existing solutions. This issue has been addressed in this study by a comprehensive analysis over decades of societal efforts against misinformation. In this analysis, quelling strategies from organisational and government perspectives are explained. Then they are investigated from efficacy level and governance mode. Our analyses show that, despite a seemingly suitable setting for confronting misinformation, there is a major shortcoming in governance mode of current quelling strategies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091708785&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3366424.3384373
DO - 10.1145/3366424.3384373
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091708785
T3 - The Web Conference 2020 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020
SP - 510
EP - 519
BT - The Web Conference 2020 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Y2 - 20 April 2020 through 24 April 2020
ER -