Aug 2026· EPRA international journal of multidisciplinary research· pp. 409· 0 citations
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On 28 August 2024, the eighty-two-year-old chairman of one of India’s largest textile groups answered a telephone call that kept him under fake police custody, on camera, for two days and cost him seven crore rupees. This article reads India’s digital arrest epidemic through two connected bodies of work: Timothy Levine’s truth-default theory and Malcolm Gladwell’s popularisation of it in Talking to Strangers (2019). It argues that these frauds succeed not because their victims are foolish but because the scam weaponises three ordinary features of human communication: our default to belief, our faith in appearances, and the coupling of behaviour to engineered circumstance. It ends with what the psychology of deception cannot explain, which is the entirely rational unease Indian citizens feel when the state appears to come calling.
In the digital era, where misinformation and AI-generated content spread rapidly through social media, Islamic digital da’wah in Indonesia faces serious challenges in maintaining communication ethics and accuracy. According to the 2023 Ipsos, 75% of Indonesian respondents believe that AI enables the creation of convinc...
B. A. A. Wiryandito, M. Ifada· JATISKOM : Jurnal Aplikasi T...· 0 citations
‘Digital arrest’ is not a legally recognised mode of custody but a coercive cyber-fraud script in which offenders impersonate police, investigative agencies, regulators or courts, simulate criminal process and compel victims to transfer money while remaining under audio-visual surveillance. This article argues that the...
Ratan Kumar Patel· International Journal of Res...· 0 citations
Generative artificial intelligence can now generate fake audio and video at a relatively low cost, and it is very difficult to tell whether it is real; thus, public trust in what they see and hear is starting to erode. Communication and political science research have shown that, in the context of public and political...
Xin-Meng Li· Transactions on Social Scien...· 0 citations
Tanzania's rapid internet expansion has coincided with increasingly assertive regulation of online expression, most visibly during the October 2025 general elections, when authorities blocked X, Clubhouse, Telegram and JamiiForums, causing a severe multi-day national connectivity disruption. Many Tanzanian users turned...
Prisca Laus Kipagile· East African Journal of Law...· 0 citations
This paper explores how the technologies U.S. election officials depend on also challenge their work. Every election, misleading narratives stem from errors that occur while using election technology, threatening election official safety and eroding faith in elections. We seek to understand the impact of these challeng...
Delaney Gomen, Josiah D. Hester, Naveena Karusala et al.· 0 citations
Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the...
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