Educating the Public to Combat Online Defamation, Doxing, and Impersonation

Online defamation, doxing, and impersonation are three of the major problems of the internet age. As technology advances, these become greater problems. These problems can cause serious damage to victims. This research chapter makes recommendations on how to educate the public to deal with online defamation, doxing, and impersonation. It concludes by proposing a field called “misinformation identification engineering” to develop algorithms and software to find, flag, or remove misinformation and disinformation on websites and in other documents.