Perceptions of Virtual Environments in Arab States: Unveiling the Nexus of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

This study utilizes some sociological methods and primary marketing research to explain the differences in public attitudes in various Arab countries towards the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against disinformation, with a focus on ethical and legal aspects. In other words, the impression is created that the current study seeks to measure possibilities of potential harm and effective usage of sources of information, illusionary though, of AI in relation to information and security problems. This study also investigates the already existing conditions that shift social media users' attitudes towards the use of AI tools for the purposes of countering misinformation by using the quantitative approach. Also, the research aims at classifying and identifying the legal public and illegal hate speech on social media platforms using AI tools. The significance of this research is that in engaging policy makers and other stakeholders, their attitudes regarding the combating of misinformation using AI technologies are gauged, thus seeking to draft policies on the use of AI technologies with the emphasize that ethical and legal considerations are critical in this area.