Abstract
This paper explores digital media framing of the news stories in Turkey’s Disinformation bulletins, its integration with AI-generated disinformation strategies, and the implications for democracy in contemporary Turkish politics. Disinformation law, introduced alongside with disinformation bulletins where Turkish government starts to announce fake news in media, although positioned as a mechanism to combat fake news, has faced widespread criticism for its potential use as a tool for government propaganda and censorship.Using Robert Entman’s media framing analysis, this study focuses on news stories ‘claimed’ to be fake by Turkish government in the bulletins announced between 2022-2025 and how they are framed across pro-government, independent and foreign media, revealing significant divergences in narrative construction and power relations.The paper proposes that the disinformation law and bulletins in Turkey, coupled with the use of AI technologies for both disseminating and regulating disinformation, are mechanisms that amplify state control over Turkish media narratives, particularly in a polarized political environment, thereby posing significant threats to free speech, media integrity, and democratic governance. After finding out the common patterns in each news article in pro-government, independent and foreign media, the research applies Matthes and Kohring’s cluster analysis to group the similarities in framing patterns and compare the clusters to reveal divergences in narrative construction and power dynamics behind framing. By contextualizing Turkey’s framing patterns within global debates on disinformation regulation, the research discusses the implications of these frames for free speech, democratic governance, and media integrity in Turkey and highlights how polarization influences narrative construction in media atmospheres.
Presenters
Kardelen GökçedağExternal Communications Designer, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Hungary, Hungary
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Disinformation Media Framing Discourse Polarization
