Ong, Jonathan Corpus and Cabañes, Jason Vincent. 2019. Politics and Profit in the Fake News Factory: Four Work Models of Political Trolling in the Philippines. Project Report. NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Riga, Latvia. [Report]

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This report synthesises findings based on over three years of ethnographic research, during which we gained unprecedented access to authors of fake news and producers of disinformation campaigns who provided long-form interviews. The main aim of this report is to shed light on the variety of work arrangements of digital political trolling that continue to hide in plain sight.

We concentrate on three organisational models of disinformation production we observed in our research, namely 1) the in-house staff model, 2) the advertising and PR model, and 3) the clickbait model. We also reference the features of a fourth model of disinformation production—the state-sponsored model of disinformation—drawing on secondary data from journalistic investigative reports on digital campaigns used to promote state policy, delegitimise dissenters, and attack opposition figures.

Item Type:	Report (Project Report)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	5 December 2019
Item ID:	37415
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2024 15:30
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2024 15:30
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37415

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