The Varieties of Disinformation

Fallis, Don

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07121-3_8

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“…A tentatively complete taxonomy would include: ignorance per se, misinformation, paltering, disinformation, missing information, self‐deception (motivated and unmotivated, non‐social and social, social situating and social persuasive). We will characterize and exemplify the members of this taxonomy and then we will look at two dominant forms of information calumny: doxing and fake news and their role in deception and self‐deception (Froehlich, ; Fallis, ).…”

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What do we do about “fake news” and other forms of false information: The roles of the organization of false information, professional ethics and information literacy?

Oltmann

Froehlich

Agosto

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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False information, of which the most dominant types in the current disinformation marketplace are fake news or disinformation, seems to be ubiquitous these days, with little certainty about how to solve the problems they bring. In this panel, we discuss a taxonomy of types of false information, which will help us better understand the phenomenon and how to address it. We note that simply restricting access to or censoring false information will likely be ineffective and counter to professional information ethics. Instead, the way forward is to promote and practice meaningful information literacy.

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What do we do about “fake news” and other forms of false information: The roles of the organization of false information, professional ethics and information literacy?

Oltmann

Froehlich

Agosto

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…Analytic philosophy is characterized by a focus on logic, language and conceptual analysis as the means to solve philosophical problems and it is these means which are most commonly used by scholars and philosophers who work in the intersection between information studies and analytic philosophy (cf. Fallis, 2009Fallis, , 2014Furner, 2004;Fox, 1983;Mai, 2013Mai, , 2016Søe, 2016Søe, , 2018. Hence, PIin the intersection between information studies and analytic philosophyengages in questions ordinarily found in information studies such as: what information is; how it is or can be used; its relation to knowledge, data, communication and learning; questions about privacy and information ethics; and what it means to live in the information age with information technology, algorithms, internet and social media.…”

Section: Philosophy Of Information (Sille Obelitz Søe)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, it can be noted that the few philosophical accounts of misinformation and disinformation, respectively, which have been developed, have been put forth in PI by information studies scholars (e.g. Fallis, 2009Fallis, , 2014Fallis, , 2015Fox, 1983).…”

Section: Philosophy Of Information (Sille Obelitz Søe)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Information and design: book symposium on Luciano Floridi’s The Logic of Information

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Furner

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss Luciano Floridi’s 2019 book The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design, the latest instalment in his philosophy of information (PI) tetralogy, particularly with respect to its implications for library and information studies (LIS). Design/methodology/approach Nine scholars with research interests in philosophy and LIS read and responded to the book, raising critical and heuristic questions in the spirit of scholarly dialogue. Floridi responded to these questions. Findings Floridi’s PI, including this latest publication, is of interest to LIS scholars, and much insight can be gained by exploring this connection. It seems also that LIS has the potential to contribute to PI’s further development in some respects. Research limitations/implications Floridi’s PI work is technical philosophy for which many LIS scholars do not have the training or patience to engage with, yet doing so is rewarding. This suggests a role for translational work between philosophy and LIS. Originality/value The book symposium format, not yet seen in LIS, provides forum for sustained, multifaceted and generative dialogue around ideas.

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“…The following is certainly not an exhaustive list: As the Germans tried to do with the Enigma code, people often send encrypted messages in order to keep everybody but the intended recipient in the dark about the contents of the message (see Katz & Lindell, ). In fact, in addition to concealing the contents of a message, we sometimes try to keep people in the dark about the fact that a message is even being sent (see Fallis, , p. 158). For instance, we might write a message in invisible ink. Soldiers camouflage themselves (and their equipment) in order to keep the enemy in the dark about their location (see Bell & Whaley, , pp.…”

Section: Ways To Keep People In the Darkmentioning

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Shedding Light on Keeping People in the Dark

Fallis

2018

Topics in Cognitive Science

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We want to keep hackers in the dark about our passwords and our credit card numbers. We want to keep potential eavesdroppers in the dark about our private communications with friends and business associates. This need for secrecy raises important questions in epistemology (how do we do it?) and in ethics (should we do it?). In order to answer these questions, it would be useful to have a good understanding of the concept of keeping someone in the dark. Several philosophers (e.g., Bok, 1983; Carson, 2010; Mahon, 2009; Scheppele, 1988) have analyzed this concept (or, equivalently, the concept of keeping secrets) in terms of concealing and/or withholding information. However, their analyses incorrectly exclude clear instances of keeping someone in the dark. And more important, they incorrectly focus on possible means of keeping someone in the dark rather than on what it is to keep someone in the dark. In this paper, I argue that you keep X in the dark about a proposition P if and only if you intentionally cause X not to have a true belief that P. In addition, I show how this analysis of keeping someone in the dark can be extended from a categorical belief model of epistemic states to a credence (or degree of belief) model.

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The Varieties of Disinformation

Cited by 58 publications

References 26 publications

What do we do about “fake news” and other forms of false information: The roles of the organization of false information, professional ethics and information literacy?

What do we do about “fake news” and other forms of false information: The roles of the organization of false information, professional ethics and information literacy?

Information and design: book symposium on Luciano Floridi’s The Logic of Information

Shedding Light on Keeping People in the Dark

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