The paper explores the use of concepts in cognitive psychology to evaluate the spread of
misinformation, disinformation and propaganda in online social networks. Analysing online
social networks to identify metrics to infer cues of deception will enable us to measure
diffusion of misinformation. The cognitive process involved in the decision to spread
information involves answering four main questions viz consistency of message, coherency
of message, credibility of source and general acceptability of message. We have used the …