FAKE NEWS - A CHALLENGE FOR OSINT
FAKE NEWS - A CHALLENGE FOR OSINT

Summary/Abstract: "Fake news" is one of the major themes on public agenda in recent years, with a high potential for affecting social systems and democracy as a whole. Against this background, the increasingly use of fake content or alternative facts, coupled with the dynamics of social networks, has generated a special concern to understand and counteract this phenomenon. In the intelligence activity, the extent of the phenomenon and the magnitude of its consequences, amplified by the facilities provided by the social platforms, create significant difficulties in collecting and analyzing the information from open sources (OSINT), that obtained a considerable role in intelligence. In this context, this article aims to address the conceptual aspects and the implications of "fake news" as a reference point in identifying response measures meant to ensure - in a specialized way - the counteraction of the phenomenon.

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