The Importance of Combating Fake News and its Impact in the Digital Age
The Importance of Combating Fake News and its Impact in the Digital Age

Author(s): Gabriel-Virgil TAUBER, Sergiu-Adrian VASILE
Subject(s): Security and defense, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Asociatia Romana pentru Asigurarea Securitatii Informatiei
Keywords: fake news; digitization; misinformation; vulnerabilities; cooperation; integrated solutions
Summary/Abstract: In an era of massive digitization and technologization, information represents the quintessence of success on all levels and in all fields. With a major power and influence in achieving success, disinformation, however, gains in the last period of time more followers who, through different methods and means, manage to manipulate and control different social categories in order to achieve the intended goal. There is currently a risk that a piece of information (fake news) will cause harm and damage not only at the individual level but also at the macro level, destabilizing order and national security. As we will show in this article, with the help of artificial intelligence, with the help of each individual, among cooperation at the international level and among an education appropriate to the century in which we live, we can hope to counteract and diminish this phenomenon that it can also have geopolitical consequences and more.

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