Classification of Information Disorder

This paper approaches the classification of information disorder by studying tweets regarding a specific COVID-19 patient that was the subject of widespread public discussion in Malaysia in early 2020. The paper examines the subtleties and problems associated with characterizing Information Disorder in the context of human assessments. Moreover, the paper also explores whether computational approaches can be employed to aid with the classification of Information Disorder. This paper discusses several policy considerations in an 'all of society' approach to combating Information Disorder – (1) Government – Principles of objective fact-checking, (2) Corporations – Civic responsibilities of handling Information Disorder and (3) Society – Digital and Online Media Literacy.