Assessing potential disinformation campaigns in anonymous online comments: Evaluating available textual cues in debates on the 2019 Hong Kong protests

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-03 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.002

Cedric Deschrijver

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Abstract

Despite increasing attention to its spread, there has been little sustained engagement with online disinformation’s localized effects. This paper provides a case study of online commenters’ own interpretations of potential disinformation campaigns, by analyzing The Financial Times’s anonymous comment boards below coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Despite a lack of clear-cut evidence of ongoing disinformation campaigns, disparate textual features retrievable in discourse come to function as contextualization cues that situationally index ongoing disinformation campaigns. Participants’ awareness of the possibility of disinformation may thus engender accusations of disinformation towards any comment criticizing the protest movement, with several arguments becoming stereotypically indexical of potential disinformation campaigns. The case study provides a linguistic-anthropological account of the interrelation between disinformation and social polarization.

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评估匿名在线评论中潜在的造谣活动：评估 2019 年香港抗议活动辩论中的可用文本线索

尽管网络虚假信息的传播日益受到关注，但人们却很少持续关注其本地化效应。本文通过分析《金融时报》匿名评论区对 2019 年香港抗议活动的报道，对网络评论者自己对潜在虚假信息活动的解读进行了案例研究。尽管缺乏正在进行的造谣活动的明确证据，但可在话语中检索到的不同文本特征成为了情境化线索，在情境中索引正在进行的造谣活动。因此，参与者对虚假信息可能性的认识可能会导致对任何批评抗议运动的评论提出虚假信息的指控，其中一些论点成为潜在虚假信息运动的刻板索引。本案例研究从语言人类学角度阐述了虚假信息与社会极化之间的相互关系。

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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3.40

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6.70%

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