Information Disorder and Resilience in the Global South: Structural Drivers, Governance, Media Literacy, and Fact-Checking

This volume addresses one of the most significant gaps in the counter-disinformation literature: the overwhelming concentration of research and policy attention on North American and European contexts, and the corresponding neglect of the structural information disorders that afflict the Global South. Ncube, Wasserman, and Seward have assembled contributions examining information ecosystems, governance frameworks, and resilience interventions across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The structural analysis is the volume's most important contribution. Information disorder in the Global South is not simply a scaled-down version of Western platform problems: it is shaped by different patterns of media ownership, different histories of state manipulation of information, different infrastructure constraints, and different relationships between formal media and informal information networks. For analysts and practitioners working on resilience beyond the Western context, this is essential reading.