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Foreign Disinformation In America And The U S Government S Ethical

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foreign disinformation in america and the u s government s ethical

Author: Murphy, Brian Title: Foreign Disinformation in America and the U.S. Government’s Ethical Obligations to Respond Publisher: Springer Publication Date: 4/19/2023 ISBN: 9783031299032 Hardcover () Murphy, B. (2023). Disinformation and Democracy. In: Foreign Disinformation in America and the U.S.

Government’s Ethical Obligations to Respond. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. Across time and cultures, how information is conveyed and the degree to which it is manipulated can have an impact on a healthy democracy. Disinformation is one form of speech that makes up illiberal speech. The various forms of illiberal speech can be synergistic in degrading democratic underpinnings.

Disinformation undercuts the structural integrity and inhibits the process of a liberal democracy. The corpus of literature points to the importance of maintaining a degree of popular trust in institutions for liberal democratic stability. Researchers have generally agreed that disinformation on social media has weakened such trust. Russian-driven social media disinformation is a significant danger to bedrock democratic principles. One of the adverse outcomes has been a degradation of the U.S. government’s ability to be seen as reliable domestically and abroad.

In addition to hostile nation-states, other actors are capable of and have used disinformation to weaken America. Last updated 2 weeks ago. Our resources are updated regularly but please keep in mind that links, programs, policies, and contact information do change. In our information-saturated world, government messages flood our daily lives through news alerts, social media, and official announcements. Distinguishing between legitimate public information and manipulative propaganda has become a crucial civic skill. The stakes are high.

Citizens who can’t tell the difference may dismiss vital health guidance or fall prey to harmful narratives that serve narrow political interests rather than the public good. Meanwhile, the digital age has supercharged both beneficial information campaigns and sophisticated propaganda, making media literacy more important than ever. The word “propaganda” didn’t start as a dirty word. It comes from the Latin propagare, meaning to spread or propagate. The Catholic Church used it neutrally in the 17th century with the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (Congregation for Propagating the Faith), an organization focused on spreading religious doctrine. The U.S.

no longer has a free marketplace of ideas. Instead, the marketplace is saturated with covert foreign-backed disinformation. And despite the ethical obligations to act, successive administrations have done nothing. Additionally, the decline in trust has left the door open for populism and il... This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help? Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks ((LNSN)) Across time and cultures, how information is conveyed and the degree to which it is manipulated can have an impact on a healthy democracy. Disinformation is one form of speech that makes up illiberal speech. The various forms of illiberal speech can be synergistic in degrading democratic underpinnings.

Disinformation undercuts the structural integrity and inhibits the process of a liberal democracy. The corpus of literature points to the importance of maintaining a degree of popular trust in institutions for liberal democratic stability. Researchers have generally agreed that disinformation on social media has weakened such trust. Russian-driven social media disinformation is a significant danger to bedrock democratic principles. One of the adverse outcomes has been a degradation of the U.S. government’s ability to be seen as reliable domestically and abroad.

In addition to hostile nation-states, other actors are capable of and have used disinformation to weaken America. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln (“Lincoln Archives,” accessed June 6, 2021, https://lincolnarchives.com/LincolnQuotes.php) How do experts consider disinformation relevant to the structural integrity and process of liberal democracy? In this chapter, I start shaping the impact of disinformation in degrading trust in the liberal democratic tradition.

The corpus of literature points to the importance of maintaining a degree of popular trust in institutions for liberal democratic stability. I explore what researchers have to say about how disinformation carried out on social media has weakened such trust. In addition to hostile nation-states, I enter in the fact that other types of actors have used disinformation and will continue to do so to weaken America. I return to the concept that disinformation, along with polarizing and populist rhetoric, are all components of illiberal speech. The various forms of illiberal speech can act synergistically to undermine trust in democratic institutions.

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