Predictive Research On Misinformation & Propagation Trajectories (PROMPT) Codebook

Developed as part of the PROMPT – Predictive Research On Misinformation & Propagation Trajectories project, the codebook provides a detailed categorisation system encompassing 31 code groups and more than 240 specific codes. It integrates interdisciplinary insights from media and communication studies, linguistics, rhetoric, and semantics, enabling both human and AI-assisted detection of disinformation patterns.

The codebook includes categories for narratives, argumentation, verifiability, facticity, manipulation techniques, rhetorical figures, ideological orientation, and linguistic forms. Designed for application across multilingual and multimodal datasets, the PROMPT Codebook supports AI-driven analysis using Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify subtle linguistic and rhetorical markers of disinformation. It serves as a foundation for comparative studies across six European countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Italy, and France) and is intended to enhance research, media literacy, and democratic resilience against information manipulation.