Provocările jurnalismului în era digitală: dezinformare, militantism, propagandă. Cenzură și fake news în timpul războiului din Ucraina by Antonio MOMOC

“…The pandemic crisis and the Ukraine war have generated fear, incapacitated the official communication, and accelerated the spread of rumours and conspiracy theories. The digital environment and social media were the channels where disinformation, urban legends, myths, folk tales and high-tech online propaganda campaigns have been orchestrated to persuade, deceive, or explain the absurd that the Romanian authorities did not know how to manage or how to make sense out of. …”
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Weapons of the weak or weak weapons? Women, priests, and power negotiations in roman catholic parishes in rural Poland. by Agnieszka Pasieka

“…Using ethnographic material collected during fi eld research in rural Poland, the article demonstrates the ambivalent nature of anticlerical jokes and rumours, which, rather than constituting a tool of change, reaffi rm the existing order. …”
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The Importance of the Indices in Acceptance or Reject of a Hadiths by Imam Al-Tirmidhi in His Book al-Jami’a (Chosen Examples from Tahara Book) by Hakima Hafidi, Siham Omara

“…What prompted us to write on this subject was what was rumoured about Imam al-Tirmidhi that he was lenient regarding discrediting and endorsement and correcting and weakening. …”
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Misrepresentation about vaccines that are scaring women by Jagidesa Moodley, Olive P. Khaliq, Princess Z. Mkhize

“…Therefore, the objective of this report is to raise awareness that the rumours on the vaccine are false and to encourage every individual to accept the vaccination for their safety and the safety of their loved ones.…”
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Memory Located and Endriaga in La oscura memoria de las armas by Eleonor Concha Venegas

“…In La oscura memoria de las armas (2008) Ramón Díaz Eterovic explores the topics of memory, Chile’s dictatorship, transition, violence and truth from the perspective of Detective Heredia, who goes through the streets of Santiago elucidating a murder that, based on rumours and on a conscious of effort of not forgetting history, it deals with relevant topics that were not talked about on the time of the transition to democracy, where memories become an "endriaga" at the sight of the establishment of the collective memory, birthed on the streets of the city. …”
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Falsas creencias sobre las vacunas by Angela Domínguez, Jenaro Astray, Jesús Castilla, Pere Godoy, José Tuells, Irene Barrabeig

“…The objective of this article is to evaluate the origin and the arguments of some of the most frequent mistaken ideas and rumours about the possible adverse effects of vaccines. …”
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Saranjana in Historical Record: The City's Invisibility in Pulau Laut, South Kalimantan by Mansyur Mansyur

“…Saranjana is a mystical city that is a myth for the people of Pulau Laut, South Kalimantan. Rumours about this mysterious city became increasingly excited because its existence, but not recorded on the map of Indonesia. …”
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COVID-19 Infodemic in Malaysia: Conceptualizing Fake News for Detection by Chee Kuan Lim, Zurinahni Zainol, Bahiyah Omar, Noor Farizah Ibrahim

“…There is an “Infodemic” of COVID-19 in which there are a lot of rumours and information disorders spreading rapidly, the purpose of the study is to build a predictive model for identifying whether the COVID-19 information in the Malay language in Malaysia is real or fake. …”
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Slow-onset disaster and sustainable livelihoods: the Vaal River in the vicinity of Parys by Gideon van Riet, Johann Tempelhoff

“…It is imperative that shocks such as sewerage spills and rumours of polluted potable water are addressed to ensure that these do not become long-term negative trends.…”
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The effect of misinformation within new media on Singapore politics by Tan, Shawn Jin Howe

“…The growth of new media has blessed us with an influx of information but at the same time, individuals are increasingly susceptible to digital threats such as digital manipulation, hoaxes, rumours, and misleading news. Nowadays, it is progressively arduous to draw a line between fact and fiction. …”
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Testing the Fama and French three factor model : evidence from China by Ho, Qiao Yi, Lee, Pearl Shi Qi, Yang, Ryan Jing Liang

“…The market, consisting of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange, is uniquely characterized by individual investors who based their investments on market rumours. We tests the daily and monthly stock returns against the Fama-French three factors, namely excess market return, firm size and book-to-market ratio. …”
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Unwillingness or reluctance of Palestinians to get the COVID-19 vaccine: the reasons behind it and how to persuade them by Hammoda Abu-Odah, Jing Su, Salihu Sabiu Musa

“…Discussion: The unwillingness of Palestinian people to get the COVID-19 vaccine was attributed to the spread of false rumours, misinformation, and conspiracy theories they received about the vaccine on the social media and mistrust towards vaccines the government purchased. …”
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Non-halal ingredients in products with special reference to toothpaste looking at the Malaysian law / Nurdalina Md. Yassin and Christy Eleanor Anak Dublin by Md. Yassin, Nurdalina, Dublin, Christy Eleanor

“…Why we choose this topic is because there have been many rumours about one of the toothpaste brand which contains non-halal ingredients. …”
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Information trustworthiness as a solution to the misinformation problems in social media by Nurse, J, Agrafiotis, I, Goldsmith, M, Creese, S, Lamberts, K, Price, D, Jones, G

“…Typical examples of challenges include the prevalence of mistaken information and deliberate misinformation and rumours. With an understanding of these challenges, we then introduce the notion of information-trustworthiness measures as a potential solution to the problem of misinformation in social media. …”

Systematic risk and accounting determinants: A new perspective from an emerging market by Aruna, Dian Citra, Warokka, Ari

“…By using current ratio, debt to total asset ratio, Long-term Debt to Total Asset (LDTA) ratio, firm size, and growth as the proxies for accounting determinants and beta as the proxy for systematic risk, we investigated 15 top and most-traded Indonesian manufacturing firms' stocks.The results revealed a striking and surprising phenomenon, which no accounting determinants influence at all the systematic risk.It demonstrated the market behaviour that paid less attention to the financial statement information, and seemed to focus more on technical analysis in making an investment decision.It implicitly highlighted on how to manage a market that seemingly is sensitive to non-fundamental factors, i.e., market sentiment and macroeconomic rumours, the main drivers of technical analysis.…”

Exploring fake communication news through Facebook by Sabri, Rizwan, Kamaruddin, Azlina

“…The root reason for carrying out semi-structured interviews is because we are interested to understand the forms of posting rumours and actions taken by the general public about the issue of fake communication. …”
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Effects of information-induced behavioural changes during the COVID-19 lockdowns: the case of Italy by Bruno Buonomo, Rossella Della Marca

“…We consider an SEIR-like epidemic model where the contact and quarantine rates depend on the available information and rumours about the disease status in the community. …”
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Amândoi by Liviu Rebreanu: multicultural settings and sources of suspense by Lucian Vasile Bagiu

“…The continuous increase of suspense, the open ending, the parody in the undertone, and the development of the intrigue in an original multicultural context are presented further on. The various rumours arising from the townspeople’s own hypotheses about the murders of the aged Dăniloiu provide the opportunity to present the detective genre, which Rebreanu introduced in Romanian literature, suggesting a disguised satire of the type. …”
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From statistical physics to social sciences: the pitfalls of multi-disciplinarity by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

“…Crises, panics, opinion reversals, the spread of rumours or beliefs, fashion effects and the zeitgeist , but also the existence of money, lasting institutions, social norms and stable societies, must be understood in terms of collective belief and/or trust, self-sustained by interactions, or on the contrary, the rapid collapse of this belief or trust. …”
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Analysis of Multiple Factors Influencing COVID-19 Induced Mental Health by Chauhan Neha, Dubey Niranjan, Iyer R. Kamatchi, Zade Nilima

“…With many of us facing challenges and battles in our lives, it is natural to feel frustrated and distressed. The spread of rumours and misinformation has led to anger, disorder and stress among people. …”
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