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Disinformation Strategies

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  • Daniel Arce

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Disinformation is a form of offensive counterintelligence via deception and neutralization in order to strategically manipulate an audience or create further fractures in existing divisions. Disinformation strategies include leaking, lying, seeding, and smearing. These strategies vary according to whether the information conveyed is true or false, and whether the source uses or hides its identity. This study characterizes the strategic relationship between lying and leaking, and the extent true and false sources of disinformation are believed. Additional characterizations include noisy and neutralizing disinformation, the importance of medium versus message, echo chambers, and the half-life of secrets.

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  • Daniel Arce, 2024. "Disinformation Strategies," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(6), pages 659-672, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:35:y:2024:i:6:p:659-672
    DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2024.2302236
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