The digital acceleration has transformed the media, narratives, information consumption, and the configuration of public opinion. The rise of social networks and users’ fascination with participation have precipitated the process of disintermediation. We are living through a shift in opinion-making, with multiplying content, sources and stories that are often contradictory or simply false. The internet has put the world within our reach, but it is a world that is skewed by algorithms. In this disinformation society, the debate over ideas has become fragmented and polarised, which has in turn contributed to eroding democracy. Issue 124 of Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals reflects on disinformation and power, freedom of expression and lies, the influence of electoral hoaxes, the communication strategies of populism, the purported new discursive authorities, and the political and legislative changes undertaken in the EU and in Ukraine to combat disinformation.
DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2020.124.1
Daniel Innerarity and Carme Colomina
Introduction: disinformation and power, the intermediaries crisis
Daniel Innerarity and Carme Colomina
Truth in algorithmic democracies
Verónica Yazmín García Morales
Where lies live: freedom of expression and information in times of hate and hyperinformation
Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez and María José Ufarte Ruiz
Artificial intelligence and journalism: a tool to fight disinformation
Monika Hanley
Safeguarding the information space: disinformation policies in the EU and Ukraine
Laura Cervi
Veni, vidi, Facebooked-live: analysis of Matteo Salvini’s success on Facebook
Francisco Paniagua Rojano, Francisco Seoane Pérez and Raúl Magallón-Rosa
An anatomy of the electoral hoax: political disinformation in Spain’s 2019 general election campaign
Amparo Huertas Bailén and Luiz Peres-Neto
Migrants casting themselves as discourse leaders: “What’s happening in Venezuela?”
Other articles
Adrián Bonilla Soria and Lorena Herrera-Vinelli
CELAC as a strategic vehicle for China’s relations with Latin America (2011–2018)
Book reviews (subjects)
Alfredo Crespo Alcázar
Combating post-truth in a realistic way
Jordi Quero Arias
Enlightenment, humanism and the technological revolution
Núria Reguero Jiménez
Post-truth: demagoguery in the 21st century
Héctor Sánchez Margalef
The truth and nothing but the truth about the origins of Podemos
Raúl de Arriba Bueno
Interested in helping? Political motivations for external cooperation
