Disinformation Resilience in Backsliding Democracies: Media Trust, Civil Society, and Institutional Capture

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dc.contributor.authorPeißker, Antonia
dc.contributor.authorCowburn, Mike
dc.contributor.authorKlinger, Ulrike
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-28T06:53:52Z
dc.date.available2025-04-28T06:53:52Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-25 00:00:00
dc.description.abstractSocieties’ resilience to disinformation is often linked to democratic backsliding, but the relationships between these concepts remain poorly understood. To measure structural resilience to disinformation, we expand the framework developed for consolidated Western democracies by Humprecht et al. (2020) to democracies that are experiencing varying degrees of democratic backsliding; the Visegrád Group of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Our application leads us to generate additional macro-level features that should be incorporated when thinking about disinformation resilience in states experiencing democratic backsliding. Specifically, we identify how the role of civil society operates differently depending on the level of democracy and that the value of media trust is conditioned by the degree of institutional capture, adding these complementary measures to the original framework. Our updated empirical analyses suggest that, of our cases, Slovakia had the greatest and Hungary had the least resilience to disinformation. The advancement of the framework enables its application beyond consolidated democracies by identifying additional aspects that help build structural resilience to disinformation elsewhere.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Weizenbaum Institute is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
dc.identifier.citationPeißker, A., Cowburn, M., & Klinger, U. (2025). Disinformation Resilience in Backsliding Democracies: Media Trust, Civil Society, and Institutional Capture. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.2.2
dc.identifier.doi10.34669/wi.wjds/5.2.2
dc.identifier.issn2748-5625
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/882
dc.identifier.zdb3064083-0
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWeizenbaum Institute
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectonline disinformation
dc.subjectdemocratic backsliding
dc.subjectEastern Europe
dc.subjectVisegrad Group
dc.subjectcivil society
dc.subjectmedia capture
dc.titleDisinformation Resilience in Backsliding Democracies: Media Trust, Civil Society, and Institutional Capture
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume5
local.researchgroupDynamiken digitaler Nachrichtenvermittlung
local.series.nameWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
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