Drums: distortions, rumours, untruths, misinformation, and smears
The seemingly unrelenting beat of drums / Norman Vasu, Benjamin Ang, and Shashi Jayakumar -- Cognitive predispositions and drums -- The psychology of conspiracy theories : the role of pattern perception / Robert Brotherton -- Believing chicken little : evolutionary perspectives on credulity and danger / Daniel M. T. Fessler -- The employment of the drums -- Fake news : the allure of digital weapon / Nicolas Arpagian -- Mapping cyberspace : the example of Russian informational actions in France / Kevin Limonier and Louis Petiniaud -- Computational propaganda in Europe, the U.S., and China / Gillian Bolsover and Philip Howard -- Civilians in the information operations battlefront: China's information operations in the Taiwan straits / Gulizar Haciyakupoglu and Benjamin Ang -- Countering drums -- Integrating resilience in defense planning against information warfare in the post-truth world / Janis Berzins -- What can we learn from Russian hostile information operations in Europe? / Jakub Janda and Veronika Vichova -- How Germany is trying to counter online disinformation / Karolin Schwarz -- Distinguishing fact from fiction in the modern age / Andreas Schleicher -- About the editors -- About the contributors.