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Informational Autocrats - Academic Sources

The paper analyses the role of the media in establishing and maintaining modern-day authoritarian regimes. The authors offer a formal account of how such systems work, emphasising the importance of the gap in political knowledge between the “informed elite” and the general public as a key element of informational autocracy

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 - HTML5 video

This short video presents the main findings of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 which reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 74,000 online news consumers in 37 countries, including many European countries

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 - Reports

This study explores the ways news is being consumed in a range of countries. This year's report focuses on the issues of trust and misinformation, media literacy, new online business models, the impact of changing Facebook algorithms and the rise of new platforms and messaging apps

The Oxygen of Amplification - Reports

The report, written by digital media scholar Whitney Phillips for Data&Society, shows how the far-right manipulated the media in 2016, discusses the relation between reporting and amplifying extremist ideology and suggests some tips to journalists on when and how to cover online harassment campaigns and manipulations

Internet and electoral campaigns - Reports

Rules on electoral campaigning were written for traditional media. This report examines how the shift to digital media affects the effectiveness of these rules and suggests updates

Why Does Junk News Spread So Quickly Across Social Media? - Reports

This white paper by the Knight Foundation explores the spread of junk news around the world by examining the relationship between social media and democracy and by discussing the role of algorithms, advertisements and selective exposure in filtering and delivering content

The fake news factory of Macedonia. Talking pictures with Guy Martin - HTML5 video

In the aftermath of the US elections, documentary photographer Guy Martin travelled to Vales, the small town in Macedonia that became the heart of the fake news scandal

Ten years that changed the media: 2007 - 2017 - Reports

How to turn threats into opportunities? A study on the new global media landscape, with special focus on Spain 

Freedom of the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy - Reports

A comprehensive study of internet freedom in 65 countries, covering 87 percent of the world’s internet users: Freedom of the Net warns that governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year

Call for Papers: Special issue on 'Reframing fake news' - Opportunities

The journal 'Policy and Internet' is calling for articles on fake news to be submitted by the end of October 2017