TAXONOMY OF FALSEHOODS AND INFORMATION DISORDER IN DIGITAL MEDIA: CONTENT DISTORTION, INTENTIONALITY, AND DIFFUSION PATTERNS
The article examines false information in digital media as a sociotechnical phenomenon that is shaped at the intersection of content distortions, producer intent, and networked platform mechanisms of diffusion. Given the blurred nature of the everyday use of the terms fake and fake news, a conceptual delimitation of related phenomena is undertaken, and the tendency to universalise these concepts across different types of falsehood is critically analysed.