Disinformation under a networked authoritarian state: Saudi trolls’ credibility attacks against Jamal Khashoggi

This paper deals with a case study that provides unique and original insight into social media credibility attacks against the Saudi journalist and activist, Jamal Khashoggi. To get the data, I searched all the state-run tweets sent by Arab trolls (78,274,588 in total), and I used Cedar, Canada’s su...

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Main Author: Al-Rawi Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-09-01
Series:Open Information Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0118