"This book examines the various aspects of deceptive behavior and deceptive communication on social media. It also explores fake news and misinformation, character assassination and libel, online financial scams, romance scams, business deceits and commercial lies, political deceptions, and religious lies"--.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Preface
• Section 1: Introduction: Concepts and Perspectives
  • Chapter 1: Understanding Online Falsehood From the Perspective of Social Problem
  • Chapter 2: Trolls, Bots, and Whatnots
  • Chapter 3: Factors Influencing Gossiping Behavior in Social Chatting Platforms
  • Chapter 4: Misleading Media Portrayals in a Globalized World
  • Chapter 5: “Too Good to Be True”
  • Chapter 6: Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
  • Chapter 7: Toward a Theoretical Model of Authentic and Fake User-Generated Online Reviews
• Section 2: Fake News and Misleading Reports
  • Chapter 8: The Fundamental Roles of Technology in the Spread of Fake News
  • Chapter 9: “Ridiculous and Untrue – FAKE NEWS!”
  • Chapter 10: Fake Online News
  • Chapter 11: Fake News and Information Warfare
  • Chapter 12: New Mythologies of Fake News
  • Chapter 13: The Rise of Professional Facebook Content Generators in Vietnam
  • Chapter 14: Social Media and the Challenges of Curtailing the Spread of Fake News in Nigeria
• Section 3: Misinformation and Deception in Business
  • Chapter 15: On the Alert for Share Price Manipulation and Inadvertent Disclosure in Social Media Channels
  • Chapter 16: Understanding and Countering Misinformation About Climate Change
• Section 4: Propaganda, Defamation, and Political Deception
  • Chapter 17: The Pragmatics of Political Deception on Facebook
  • Chapter 18: False Information Narratives
  • Chapter 19: The Art of Deception in Political Advertising
  • Chapter 20: Profiting From the “Trump Bump”
  • Chapter 21: Troll Farm
• Section 5: Phishing, Email Scams, and Ponzi Schemes
  • Chapter 22: “Attention Beneficiary…!”
  • Chapter 23: “Truth,” Lies, and Deception in Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes
• Section 6: Deceptive Online Dating and Romance Scam
  • Chapter 24: The Role of Deceptive Communication and Gender in Shaping Online Dating Interactions
  • Chapter 25: Online Romance in the 21st Century
• Section 7: Online Religious Deception
  • Chapter 26: Patterns of Deceptive Communication of Social and Religious Issues in Social Media
  • Chapter 27: “Type Amen” or Perish!
• Section 8: Deceptive Content by Extremist and Terrorist Groups
  • Chapter 28: Deception in Online Terrorist Propaganda
  • Chapter 29: Persuasive Propaganda
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index