The Disconnective Power of Disinformation Campaigns
Journal: Research Portal (King's College London)
Year: 2018

This paper argues that one of the major purposes of a disinformation<br/>campaign is to sustain a discursive conflict between users of social networks.<br/>By examining the phenomenon of “unfriending,” the paper describes<br/>how disinformation campaigns sabotage horizontal connections between<br/>individuals on either side of a conflict and strengthen a state’s capacity to<br/>construct an image of an external enemy. The paper argues that horizontal<br/>connections are targeted because they hav