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Cloaked Facebook pages: exploring fake Islamist propaganda in social media
IT Univ Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2272-7174
IT Univ Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
IT Univ Copenhagen, Digital Design Dept, Digital Media & Commun, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2018 (English)In: New Media and Society, ISSN 1461-4448, E-ISSN 1461-7315, Vol. 20, no 5, p. 1850-1867Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This research analyses cloaked Facebook pages that are created to spread political propaganda by cloaking a user profile and imitating the identity of a political opponent in order to spark hateful and aggressive reactions. This inquiry is pursued through a multi-sited online ethnographic case study of Danish Facebook pages disguised as radical Islamist pages, which provoked racist and anti-Muslim reactions as well as negative sentiments towards refugees and immigrants in Denmark in general. Drawing on Jessie Daniels’ critical insights into cloaked websites, this research furthermore analyses the epistemological, methodological and conceptual challenges of online propaganda. It enhances our understanding of disinformation and propaganda in an increasingly interactive social media environment and contributes to a critical inquiry into social media and subversive politics.

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Sage Publications, 2018. Vol. 20, no 5, p. 1850-1867
Keywords [en]
Cloaked, Denmark, disinformation, Facebook, hate speech, Islamophobia, propaganda, racism, social media, social network sites
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-14378DOI: 10.1177/1461444817707759ISI: 000432098300010Local ID: 24981OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-14378DiVA, id: diva2:1417898
Available from: 2020-03-30 Created: 2020-03-30 Last updated: 2024-06-17Bibliographically approved

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