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Title: | Combating misinformation online: re-imagining social media for policy-making | Authors: | Kyza, Eleni A. Varda, Christiana Panos, Dionysis Karageorgiou, Melina Komendantova, Nadejda Perfumi, Serena Coppolino Shah, Syed Iftikhar Husain Hosseini, Akram Sadat |
Major Field of Science: | Social Sciences | Field Category: | Media and Communications | Keywords: | Misinformation;Policy-making;Internet policy;Social media | Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | Internet Policy Review, 2020, vol. 9, no. 4 | Volume: | 9 | Issue: | 4 | Journal: | Internet Policy Review | Abstract: | Social media have created communication channels between citizens and policymakers but are also susceptible to rampant misinformation. This new context demands new social media policies that can aid policymakers in making evidence-based decisions for combating misinformation online. This paper reports on data collected from policymakers in Austria, Greece, and Sweden, using focus groups and in-depth interviews. Analyses provide insights into challenges and identify four important themes for supporting policy-making for combating misinformation: a) creating a trusted network of experts and collaborators, b) facilitating the validation of online information, c) providing access to visualisations of data at different levels of granularity, and d) increasing the transparency and explainability of flagged misinformative content. These recommendations have implications for rethinking how revised social media policies can contribute to evidence-based decision-making. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/19470 | ISSN: | 21976775 | DOI: | 10.14763/2020.4.1514 | Rights: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Type: | Article | Affiliation : | Cyprus University of Technology International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Stockholm University International Hellenic University University of Stuttgart |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
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