Ginsborg and Gori have assembled a genuinely cross-disciplinary collection, drawing on legal, political science, communications, and technical perspectives to analyse disinformation as a phenomenon that resists single-discipline capture. The multidisciplinary framing is not merely cosmetic: the chapters demonstrate that legal definitions of disinformation diverge significantly from communications-science definitions, that political science accounts of influence operations often miss the technical infrastructure that enables them, and that technical countermeasures frequently fail to account for the political and communicative dynamics they are trying to address.
For analysts and advisers who operate at the intersection of these disciplines — as most serious counter-FIMI work requires — the volume is useful both as a reference and as a methodological prompt. The chapters on regulatory approaches are particularly timely given the evolution of the EU's Digital Services Act framework and the ongoing debate about platform liability for disinformation.
Cogitavi commentary
Ginsborg and Gori have assembled a genuinely cross-disciplinary collection, drawing on legal, political science, communications, and technical perspectives to analyse disinformation as a phenomenon that resists single-discipline capture. The multidisciplinary framing is not merely cosmetic: the chapters demonstrate that legal definitions of disinformation diverge significantly from communications-science definitions, that political science accounts of influence operations often miss the technical infrastructure that enables them, and that technical countermeasures frequently fail to account for the political and communicative dynamics they are trying to address.
For analysts and advisers who operate at the intersection of these disciplines — as most serious counter-FIMI work requires — the volume is useful both as a reference and as a methodological prompt. The chapters on regulatory approaches are particularly timely given the evolution of the EU's Digital Services Act framework and the ongoing debate about platform liability for disinformation.