Overview
Disinformation threatens democratic systems, and technological developments further amplify this risk. A new form of disinformation is legally framed disinformation: it misleadingly uses legal language and/or legal framing while remaining formally correct. Existing initiatives mainly address factual misinformation, whereas this new manifestation has received little attention so far.
Legally framed narratives spread through digital spaces in an emotionalized and decontextualized manner, similar to polarizing content. Combating legally framed disinformation requires pan-European collaboration, a structured overview of existing solutions, and a unified approach for evaluating their quality. This proposal addresses these goals through the following activities:
i) developing a multi-perspective definition of legally framed disinformation,
ii) researching existing disinformation detection solutions,
iii) creating a framework for evaluating the quality of existing solutions,
iv) assessing the overlap between polarization and disinformation, and
v) conducting networking activities.
