Information Disorders, Moral Values and the Dispute of Narratives

08/16/2021
by   Daniel Schwabe, et al.
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In this paper we propose a framework characterizing information disorders as disputes of narratives. Such narratives present claims to readers, who must decide whether to accept the statements in the claims as facts. We point out that this process requires establishing connections to moral values, since it has been shown that human decision making is heavily dependent on them. A simple example illustrating how this could be done is given, related to claims about fraud in the US 2020 Presidential elections.

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