The Complexity of Misinformation Extends Beyond Simple Virus and Warfare Analogies
Abstract
Debates about misinformation and countermeasures are often driven by dramatic analogies, such as “infodemic” or “information warfare”. While useful shortcuts to interference, these analogies obscure the complex system through which misinformation propagates, leaving blind spots where solutions lie unseen. We present a new framework of the complex multilevel system through which misinformation propagates and show how popular analogies fail to account for this complexity. This approach offers an integrative multilevel framework
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