State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe : How Politicians Deceive Their Citizens / Martin Echeverr ia.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Deceiving from the top: state-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon -- Part I Theoretical and epistemological underpinnings of state-sponsored disinformation -- Chapter 2 Theoretical understanding of State-Sponsored Disinformation -- Chapter 3 Rethinking disinformation for the global South : Towards a particular research agenda -- Chapter 4 Statistics and state-sponsored disinformation: Understanding the propaganda war on numbers -- Part II Liberal democracies -- Chapter 5 Populist disinformation: Mapping the discursive connections between online populism and disinformation in the US -- Chapter 6 From tragedy to oblivion: State-sponsored disinformation in the aftermath of the Sewol ferry disaster -- Chapter 7 Spanish far-right and environmental disinformation: VOX's obstructionist discourse on the climate crisis on Twitter -- Chapter 8 Combatting and defeating Chinese propaganda and disinformation: A case study of Taiwan's 2020 elections -- Part III Electoral democracies -- Chapter 9 State-sponsored disinformation in Brazil: Distrust and delegitimisation of the electoral system through the use of political authority Facebook accounts -- Chapter 10 Citizen's participation on social media against state-sponsored disinformation during the pandemic in Argentina -- Chapter 11 State-sponsored disinformation in Greece: From the Novartis scandal to the wiretapping of politicians, journalists, and citizens -- Chapter 12 Investing in fake news? The disinformation industry in Kenya's 2022 elections -- Part IV Electoral and closed autocracies -- Chapter 13 Discourses and policies of disinformation in Turkey.

Chapter 14 Disinformation under the guise of democracy: lessons from Hungary -- Chapter 15 Russian Federation's FIMI prior to its Intervention in Ukraine -- Chapter 16 The genealogy of state-sponsored disinformation in Nigeria: Elections, political deception, and governing through the lens of post-truth -- Chapter 17 State-sponsored Disinformation through digital media in Malaysia -- Chapter 18 State-sponsored disinformation, hate speech, and violence: Mapping conceptual connections through Iran's anti-Bah a' i propaganda -- Chapter 19 From censorship to disinformation: Cuba's official discourse on contentious activism -- Index.

This book explores the pervasive and globalized trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicians.

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