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This chapter takes a contemporary look at the interplay between disinformation and repression in a global context, examining how these practices are employed by authoritarian and liberal democratic regimes to […]
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Since the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the West has divided interstate relations into periods of peace and war. However, use of information by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) challenges […]
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This study examines whether and how Iranian Telegram channels coordinated to disseminate propaganda and disinformation during the 12-day Israel – Iran war (13–24 June 2025). Building on digital repression and […]
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As AI-generated political disinformation proliferates, warning labels have emerged as a defining regulatory intervention. Drawing on Third-Person Effect (TPE) theory, this study investigates how exposure to warning labels on AI-generated […]
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Over the past three years, generative AI technology (e.g. DALL-E, ChatGPT) made the sudden leap from research papers and company labs to online services used by hundreds of millions of […]
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Previous research assumes that authoritarian regimes are more prone to employ online disinformation internationally compared with democratic states. However, minimal research has empirically examined the relationship between regime characteristics and […]
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The significance of this article lies in its reconceptualisation of disinformation as not only a challenge to truth but an affective force that can be examined through ontological (in)security. While […]
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This study aims to explain the diffusion pathways of coordinated inauthentic behavior during the Russia–Ukraine conflict. A dataset of 685,491 tweets containing the hashtag #russia on Twitter was used to […]
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This article develops the concept of “identity propaganda,” or narratives that strategically target and exploit identity-based differences in accord with pre-existing power structures to maintain hegemonic social orders. In proposing […]
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As digital authoritarianism evolves, new tools are needed to analyse its increasingly subtle forms. This paper adopts a longitudinal analysis of under-explored secondary sources to examine coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) […]
