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Concepts and generally adopted terminology related to all kinds of fake news and disinformation in all forms and styles
Information disorder: its gravity, partiality, and nature.
Dissemination of dis-information impact: dimension and level of impact on individuals, people, governments, companies, and organizations.
Serious consequences of such dissemination on citizens and individuals, families to organizations, companies, government offices and on a larger level major decisions of governments all over the world.
The different types of disorder such as misinformation, dis-information and mal-information, combined with practices such as filter bubbles and echo chambers highlighted by the role and relevance of contemporary social technology.
The growth of “information pollution” at a global scale.
Agents that are involved in all three phases of the information chain – creation, production, and distribution.
Analysis of “fake news” such as fabricated text articles, mis- and dis-information including any visual formats. Deep fake news and its threats.
Disinformation techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated, exploiting, and perverting on people’s data and distort it. An outlook on future agile technology that would be misused for advanced information disorder.
Bots, AstroTurf campaigns, impersonation of authoritative media, people, or governments through false websites and/or social media accounts, micro-targeting and ‘Deep-fakes’.
The use of disinformation as a very powerful strategy and tool for hostile actors, feeling less constrained by ethical or legal principles and offering very effective influence techniques.
Analysis of effective political, financial, and reputational incentives.to mitigate and counteract information disorder.
Business intelligence: risks posed on businesses from misinforming, the process of managing the business intelligence, multinational corporations, reviewing best counter measures against disinformation improve, dis-informants steadily search and adopt new strategies for eluding detection.
Political systems of countries
Information disorder and democracy and human rights
Underground and Black Web
The evolving techniques of deception and its increasing severity of disinformation is becoming more critical in political systems and governments in the world, which even may lead to major decisions that could, (and did such as the case of war in the Ukraine), lead to wars as well.
Policy instruments and framework for identification, mitigation, and countering information disorder.
Implications of disinformation on external relations of governments, human rights, and democratic norms worldwide.
Impact of Information disorder on social, ethnic, and political problems and issues in developing countries, especially those already suffering from ethnic tensions, misinformation can infuriate tensions and generate violence.
The alarming role of information disorder and critical impact on elections and democratic processes, threatening democracy.
A review of laws and legislation that are directly relevant to the case of disinformation or mal information, fake news, and other related practices of information disorder, while reviewing the role of human rights law, rights to freedom of thought and to hold opinions without interference, right to privacy, right to freedom of expression and right to participate in public affairs.
The underground web, deep and Black Web, and how they are used to spread misinformation and create information chaos and disorder.
Special software and smart technology methods used for malicious intent, and scientific ways of counteracting them and mitigating their effect.
Negative economic, social and wellbeing impact of information disorder,
The role of the Civil society, including its ethical and cultural motives, to develop wider effort to alleviate and mitigate the impact of information disorder.