False memories to fake news: The evolution of the term "misinformation" in academic literature
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What happened
This collection of recent arXiv papers highlights several security-relevant themes: (1) the evolving academic meaning of “misinformation” (ties to historical moral panics) with implications for how threats are framed and prioritized; (2) empirical evidence that platform migration and social adoption are primarily peer-driven (simple contagion), informing threat models for rapid cross-platform information operations and coordinated mobilization; (3) AI multi-agent behavior can produce emergent “tribal” dynamics that worsen resource contention and increase systemic failure risk in shared-infra (
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- Source ID
- arxiv_cs_si
- Record identifier
- 2752a2a8c6fedb7feb7fa9d19366f55317a9441450981a5ec1e4cb5a7e80874e
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-04T19:56:21Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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