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(THE CONVERSATION) Sorting through the vast amount of information created and shared online is challenging, even for the experts.
Just talking about this ever-shifting landscape is confusing, with terms like “misinformation,” “disinformation” and “hoax” getting mixed up with buzzwords like “fake news.”
Misinformation is perhaps the most innocent of the terms – it’s misleading information created or shared without the intent to manipulate people. An example would be sharing a rumor that a celebrity died, before finding out it’s false.
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Sorting through the vast amount of information created and shared online is challenging, even for the experts.
Just talking about this ever-shifting landscape is confusing, with terms like âmisinformation, âdisinformation and âhoax getting mixed up with buzzwords like âfake news.
Misinformation is perhaps the most innocent of the terms â it s misleading information created or shared without the intent to manipulate people. An example would be sharing a rumor that a celebrity died, before finding out it s false.
Disinformation, by contrast, refers to deliberate attempts to confuse or manipulate people with dishonest information. These campaigns, at times orchestrated by groups outside the U.S., such as the Internet Research Agency, a well-known Russian troll factory, can be coordinated a
Izzat Alsmadi is an Associate Professor in the department of computing and cyber security at the Texas A&M, San Antonio. He has his master and PhD in Software Engineering from North Dakota State University in 2006 and 2008 respectively.
He has more than 100 conference and journal publications. His research interests include: Cyber intelligence, Cyber security, Software security, software testing, social networks and software defined networking. He is lead author, editor in several books including: Springer, The NICE Cyber Security Framework Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics, 2019, Practical Information Security: A Competency-Based Education Course, 2018, Information Fusion for Cyber-Security Analytics (Studies in Computational Intelligence), 2016.