DISINFORMATION CONTENT DISSEMINATED VIA SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS

Abstract

The main aim of disinformation, as a tool of propaganda, is to falsify reality and influencing the recipient of given information with its distorted image. Although manipulating people and their decisions via source information is not a new phenomenon as such, it becomes particularly dangerous in the times of media allowing unlimited and free access to information from various sources whose content might not be verifiable. It is especially visible in social media, whose users proved with their activities that using the means such as memes, trolling or astroturfing, that they can change not only their own fate, but also of entire societies they live in, and as a consequence they can alter the balance of political forces on an international level.