Inaccurate Social Information: forms of dissemination in new media
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-1-85-96
Abstract
The is dedicated to the problem of an increasing amount of unreliable information in new media, where verification of information is often formal and generally inferior to professional media. Inaccurate, of false information is considered to be information that does not correspond to reality; information indicating facts that did not exist in reality or did not exist in the form represented in media. Based on the review of theoretical sources in comparison with statistical data and regulatory documents that institutionalize the practices of preventing disinformation and crimes committed with the help of information and communication technologies, the authors identify forms of unreliable information in new media: fake identities, trolls, manipulation of algorithms, bots in social networks, distorted visual images and memes.
About the Authors
V. V. Komleva
Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; National Research Institute for Communication Development
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Komleva Valentina Vyacheslavovna – DSc. (Sociol.), Professor, Director of the Center for International Strategic Studies; Deputy Director for scientific work
Moscow
P. Y. Simonov
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Simonov Pavel Yuryevich – expert on information security issues, postgraduate student of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies and International Cooperation of the Institute of Public Service and Administration
119571, Moscow, Vernadskу av., 84
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Komleva V.V., Simonov P.Y. Inaccurate Social Information: forms of dissemination in new media. Communicology. 2025;13(1):85-96. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-1-85-96
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