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Weaponising Social Media for Information Divide and Warfare

Published: 28 June 2022 Publication History

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Social media is often used to disseminate information during crises, including wars, natural disasters and pandemics. This paper discusses the challenges faced during crisis situations, which social media can both contribute to and ameliorate. We discuss the role that information polarisation plays in exacerbating problems. We then discuss how certain mal-actors exploit these divides. We conclude by detailing future avenues of work that can help mitigate these issues.

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"Weaponising Social Media for Information Warfare and Divide". We present anecdotes of the information divide on social media during the COVID-19 and Russia-Ukraine Crises. We then highlight the challenges and the opportunities to reduce the information divide and warfare in social media.

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HT '22: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
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  1. Crisis
  2. Information Divide
  3. Information Warfare
  4. Online Social Networks

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