Deadline approaching: 24 September 2021 

Nowadays, misinformation spreads more rapidly and more broadly than reliable information does, creating an “infodemic.” This has a serious impact globally. Though the main originators may be malicious entities exploiting social media, “fake news,” and conspiracy theory generators, it is ourselves and our own network of people that propagate misinformation and fake content simply by sharing them often without assessing their validity. How can we address this challenging problem facing society by leveraging technology and information hygiene practices? 

This upcoming special issue of IEEE CS IT Professional seeks to present an overview of the problems and showcase recent developments that address them and applications of IT to support humans in the fight against misinformation. The magazine invites articles that present recent advances, perspectives, and use cases. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Information trustworthiness, trust, and reputation models 
• Online misinformation diffusion models and diffusion prediction and prevention 
• Information hygiene practices and “social-media information” literacy AI and machine-learning approaches to identify and filter misinformation and prevent its propagation 
• Detection of deepfakes – fake image, audio, or video Crowdsourcing approaches to fighting misinformation 
• Impacts of misinformation, fake news, and deception Information provenance in social media and the Internet 
• Digital nudging for information hygiene 
• The role of regulatory policy in lieu of self-policing 
• Examination of the economic – for-profit – models that contribute to the info-demic 
• “Best practices” for managing mis- and disinformation across the globe Role of individuals, industry, regulatory bodies, and government 

Details at: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/it/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-information-hygiene-and-the-fight-against-the-misinformation-info-demic