" Fake news" was chosen in 2017 as the word of the year by the Collins Dictionary and the
American Dialect Society, due to its extraordinary popularity. However, its relevance has …

Populism is on the rise in many countries. Scholars have stated that it is characteristic for
political populism to describe society as a fundamental struggle between an allegedly …

We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become
increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global …

The health of democratic public spheres is challenged by the circulation of falsehoods.
These epistemic problems are connected to social media and they raise a classic problem of …

Since the World Health Organization (WHO, February 2, 2020) reported that the spread of
coronavirus disease has been accompanied by a “massive infodemic,” the COVID-19 …

Populist politicians increasingly accuse opposing media of spreading disinformation or “fake
news.” However, empirical research on the effects of these accusations is scarce. This …

Many observers are concerned that echo chamber effects in digital media are contributing to
the polarization of publics and, in some places, to the rise of right-wing populism. This study …

How populists engage with media of various types, and are treated by those media, are
questions of international interest. In the United States, Donald Trump stands out for both his …

Based on the concept of populism and its relation to media, this paper analyzes the
construction of frameworks in editorials from the Brazilian and international press on the …

The discursive construction of a populist divide between the'good'people and'corrupt'elites
can conceptually be linked to disinformation. More specifically,(right-wing) populists are not …