THE ROLE OF SECURITY CULTURE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FAKE NEWS
THE ROLE OF SECURITY CULTURE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FAKE NEWS

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at investigating the role that a strong security culture can play in the fight against fake news. Fake news are designed to target the stability of the security environment of different public actors, be they statal, organizational, social, economic, etc. The question the researchers attempt to answer is whether or not a well-developed and firm security culture can prevent fake news from reaching its goal and destabilizing the security environment. Consequently, the researchers will investigate what security culture is at the beginning of the 21st century, what effects fake news can have on society and to what extent a mature security culture can diminish the impact of fake news. The analysis will be based on the answers to a questionnaire that the researchers developed and applied on a target group of 295 respondents and that was designed to measure the degree of interconnectivity between a mature, well-developed security culture and an understanding of how fake news functions and how it can be thwarted.

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