Fake News in an Era of Social Media

Dr Fadi Safieddine is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of East London. Yasmin Ibrahim is Professor in International Business and Communication at Queen Mary University of London.

Foreword: Fake News – Anxieties and Neurosis in the Era of Social Media / 1: History of Fake News / 2: Fake News, Media, and the Fourth Estate / 3: Social and Political Image of Digital Fake News in the era of Social Media / 4: Case Study: Fake News and Threat to Brazilian’s Health / 5: The Psychology of Fake News / 6: Modelling the Propagation of Fake News in Social Media / 7: Corporate Attempts to Combat Fake News / 8: Academic Research into Combating Fake News / 9: Variable Identification and Approaches to Validating Fake News / 10: Fake News, a Legal Perspective / 11: The Ethics of the Post-Truth Society: Where are we with this?