Book Review: Disinformation in the Global South, by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, eds.

Abstract

Much of scholarly attention on disinformation has focused on debates from the developed world without much reflection on the developing world, often characterized as the Global South. Few notable works from the Global South (Chenzi, 2021; Ong, 2022) look at the political economy of fake news and the intersection of fake news, xenophobia, and COVID-19. However, no studies conducted to date are encompassing, geographically expansive, and culturally inclusive as the edited volume from Herman Wasserman-Professor of Media Studies at the