Detecting Disinformation and Astroturfing in Social Media: Bot Detection Methodologies and Challenges

Frontiers | Disinformation a problem for democracy: profiling and risks of consensus manipulation 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article

 Front. Sociol. , 11 May 2023 

 Sec. Media Governance and the Public Sphere

 Volume 8 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1150753 

 Published in Frontiers in Sociology 

 Media Governance and the Public Sphere

 
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 M S Michele Sorice

 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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 A M Andrea M. Fumagalli

 Department of Economics and Management Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy

 D S Donatella Selva

 University of Florence, Italy

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 CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article

 Front. Sociol. , 11 May 2023 

 Sec. Media Governance and the Public Sphere

 Volume 8 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1150753 

 Disinformation a problem for democracy: profiling and risks of consensus manipulation 

 F P Francesco Pira * 

 
 
 Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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 The aims of this article is to analyze in the post-pandemic era of technological wars how platformisation and the opacity that characterizes it can generate manipulative effects on the dynamics of consensus building. We are now in the era of the self-informative program; the hierarchical dimension of sources has vanished in parallel to the collapse of the authority, credibility, and trustworthiness of classical sources. Now, the user creates his own informative program, which gives rise to a new relationship between digital individuals. With this framework in mind, I intend to analyze the narrative of this post-pandemic phase proposed by mainstream media, using the tool of the fake news hexagon, to verify the impact and spread of fake news through social networks where emotionalism, hate speech, and polarization are accentuated. In fact, the definition of the fake news hexagon was the starting point to study through a predefined method the dynamics of proliferation of fake news to activate correct identification and blocking tools, in line with what is defined in the Digital Transformation Institute's manifesto. 1 Platforms drive the process of identity construction within containers that adapt to the demands of individuals, leading toward a flattening out of results from web searches as these follow the principle of confirmation bias. We assist to an increasing lack of recognition of the other, the individual moves away from commitment, sacrifice, and achieving a higher collective good. It becomes quite evident how, in the face of the collapse 

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